Factors Related to Fatal Single-Vehicle Run-Off-Road Crashes

摘要: Run-Off-Road crashes cause a large proportion of fatalities and serious injuries to the vehicle occupants. In this study, fatal from Fatality Analysis Reporting System for passenger vehicles (passenger cars LTVs) during period 1991 2007 were used identify roadway (e.g., rural/urban nature curve existence), driver age, gender, drowsy, alcohol use), environmental weather, lighting condition), vehicle-related factors speeding) associated with single-vehicle run-off-road crashes. The results show that sleep, drivers use, alignment curve, speeding vehicle, car, rural roadway, high speed limit road, adverse weather significant related risk Also, in condition younger drivers, would increase by an additional factor.