NCJ Number
124923
Date Published
1989
Length
49 pages
Annotation
This report provides statistical information and comprehensive analyses of fatal, injury, and property damage traffic accidents in Kentucky in 1989. The findings show a decrease of three percent in total fatal accidents, a four percent increase in injury accidents and a 2-percent increase in property damage accidents over 1988.
Abstract
The report includes a summary of deaths and injuries and tabulates fatalities by age and sex and severity of injury by type of accident. The next section analyzes types of accidents by types of collisions, collisions by vehicular action, rural and urban accident locations, type of vehicle involved, and hit and run accidents. The major contributing factors and conditions under which accidents occur are analyzed, as are contributing factors to pedestrian accidents. Unsafe speed, failure to yield, and alcohol involvement were noted as contributing factors in many multiple fatal accidents. The report tabulates the number of accidents in which a vehicle occupant was using safety equipment and those in which none of the occupants were restrained. Statistics on vehicular factors and alcohol involvement in truck accidents are analyzed. Characteristics for driver involvement include residence, sex, and age, while characteristics of accidents include alcohol involvement, day and time of occurrence, location, and roadway surface. The report lists accidents by county, compares accidents involving drinking drivers in 1988 and 1989, tabulates incidents of drivers under the influence of drugs, and notes accidents on the States' parkways and interstates. The section on Kentucky's Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) discusses alcohol involvement by age, test results of alcohol involved drivers, active restraints and rejections in fatal accidents, and child restraints. A final chart depicts the cost of Kentucky traffic accidents.