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| Document Number: | N2015-018 |
| Document Type: | Project report |
| Author(s): | Cher Carney Daniel McGehee Kari Harland Madonna Weiss Mireille Raby |
| Publication / Venue Name: | AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Report |
| Publication Date: | 2015-06-01 |
| Abstract: | Objective, detailed and accurate data is critically important in the effort to determine the causes and contributing factors of crashes. In the past, the only way to obtain such information for a large number of crashes was to use data collected from police reports. While information gathered this way is helpful, it has many limitations. In this study, we conducted the first-ever large-scale examination of naturalistic crash data. Other naturalistic studies have investigated only a small number of crashes or used near crashes as a proxy for real crashes. In contrast, this project examined hundreds of actual crashes from a naturalistic driving database. The data allowed us to examine behaviors and potential contributing factors in the seconds leading up to the collision, and provided information not available in police reports. |
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| Copyright: | AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety |
| Keywords: | Naturalistic driving data fleet vehicle-to-vehicle crashes |
