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https://doi.org/10.3141/2182-06

http://scholar.google.com...burn&publication_year=2010

This study analyzed 31,438 reported crashes that involved 33,638 law enforcement vehicles, 27,723 non–law enforcement vehicles, 463 pedestrians, and 391 bicyclists that occurred in Florida from 2005 through 2008. These crashes resulted in more than $101 million in total damages, 10,124 injuries, and 88 fatalities. The law enforcement vehicle crashes could be characterized by descriptive techniques such as frequencies analysis and cross-tabulation. This study found that the typical law enforcement crash was a low-speed event on a local street. Stop and signalized intersection locations were well represented in the data. The law enforcement vehicle commonly moved straight, slowed, and stopped or was parked when it crashed. Rear-end and backing-type crashes were common. Most crashes occurred during the daytime, under favorable driving conditions, and during routine operating mode. Most of the time, the driver of the law enforcement vehicle did not contribute to the cause of the collision, and the vast majority of crashes did not result in any injury. Typically, law enforcement vehicles were driven away from the scene of the collision, and total damages averaged slightly more than $3,000. Pursuit and emergency operation mode crashes made up about 23% of the crashes. In these operating conditions, vehicle speed, injury severity, and damages all increased, although the culpability of the law enforcement vehicle operator usually did not. The environmental conditions for emergency mode were not significantly different than for other crashes.

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10-0507

English

pp 40-47

2010

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309160537

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Figures (4) ; References (11) ; Tables (6)

Costs; Crash injuries; Crash locations; Crash types; Crashes; Cyclists; Emergencies; Fatalities; Law enforcement; Pedestrians; Police pursuit driving; Police vehicles; Time of crashes

Florida

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 25 2010 10:16AM

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