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Citation

Dissanayake S, Lu J. Transp. Res. Rec. 2002; 1784: 108-114.

Affiliation

University of South Florida, Department of Civil and Environmental Engn, Tampa, FL 33620 USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences USA, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.3141/1784-14

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Young drivers have the highest fatality involvement rates of any driver age group within the United States driving population. They also experience a higher percentage of single-vehicle crashes compared with others. When looking at the methods of improving this alarming death rate of young drivers, it is important to identify the determinants of higher crash and injury severity. With that intention, the study developed, using the Florida Traffic Crash Database, a set of sequential binary logistic regression models to predict the crash severity outcome of single-vehicle fixed object crashes involving young drivers. Models were organized from the lowest severity level to the highest and vice versa to examine the reliability of the selection process, but it was found that there was no considerable impact based on this selection. The developed models were validated and the accuracy was tested by using crash data that were not utilized in the model development, and the results were found to be satisfactory. Factors influential in making a crash severity difference to young drivers were then identified through the models. Factors such as influence of alcohol or drugs, ejection in the crash, point of impact, rural crash locations, existence of curve or grade at the crash location, and speed of the vehicle significantly increased the probability of having a more severe crash. Restraint device usage and being a male clearly reduced the tendency of high severity, and some other variables, such as weather condition, residence location, and physical condition, were not important at all.

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