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Accident Analysis 1stAY201516
Accident Analysis 1stAY201516
Accident occurrence
Accident involvements
Accident severity
Accident occurrence is generally described in terms of
the types and numbers of accidents that occur, often as
a rate based upon population or vehicle-miles of travel
Fatalities: 75
Fatal accident: 60
Injury accidents: 300
PDO accidents: 2000
Total involvements: 4,100
Vehicle-miles: 1,500,000,000
Registered vehicles: 100,000
Licensed drivers: 150,000
Area population: 300,000
The following fatality rates may be computed for City X during the
year 1988, based upon these statistics:
Severity index a widely used statistic for the
description of relative accident severity, defined as the
number of fatalities per accident