SPONSOR: Foundation for Air Medical Research and Education

BUDGET: $6,000

ABSTRACT: Traffic safety strongly impacts our overall health, quality of life, and mobility. Despite continued improvement in vehicles, roadway engineering, and trauma treatment, motor vehicle-related traffic fatalities have decreased very little in the past decade. From a public health perspective, traffic fatalities are the leading cause of death at all ages from 3 to 33. Many comparisons and studies of highway safety performance are done at the state or national level; however, few comparisons of the significant correlates of fatal motor vehicle crashes have been made at the county level. In the proposed study state of Oregon, the motor vehicle fatalities and injury rates statewide are very near the national average, however, there is substantial variation in these rates among Oregon's 35 counties. Indeed, fatalities per 100,000 population ranged from 4.66 to 280.70

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poster Anand, J., C. M. Monsere and K. Lyman, "Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities and Injuries: An Analysis of the Relationship of Roadway, Driver, Vehicle Characteristics in Oregon." Presented at Institute of Transportation Engineers, District 6 Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 15-18, 2007.