This manual specifies 2006 GES data definitions and coding, including variable changes, simplifying crash data entry and analysis while also reducing costs and errors.

his interim report describes the preliminary findings of the first year of a two-year NHTSA-finded study which focused on three topics: 1) emergency exits, 2) interior and exterior emergency exit markings, and 3) emergency exit lighting.

In this annual report, Traffic Safety Facts 1996: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates Systems, the National Highway Traffic Safety administration (NHTSA) presents information from two data systems Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and National Automotive Sampling System/General Estimates System (GES)} to create a single source of motor vehicle crash statistics about traffic crashes of all severities, from those that result in property damage to those that result in the loss of human life.

This study explores the relationship between vehicle occupancy and several other variables in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database and a 15-passenger van's risk of rollover. A univariate analysis is used to demonstrate the effect of selected variables on single-vehicle rollover crashes. Variables used include speed, number of occupants, driver experience and avoidance maneuvers. Also, a logistic regression model is constructed using data from NHTSA's State Data System - a collection of all police reported crashes for...

This study estimates the effectiveness of passenger vehicle daytime running lights in reducing two-vehicle opposite direction crashes, pedestrian/bicycle crashes and motorcycle crashes. The author chose the generalized simple odds, a conventional statistical technique, to analyze the data.

This annual report combines data from two of our key databases (Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System), providing statistics on traffic crashes of all severities, from those that result in property damage to those that result in the loss of human life.

The objective of this study is to analyze passenger vehicle crashes involving children up to 15 years old. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), and National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) General estimates System (GES) were consulted to establish restraint usage trends over a 5-year period from 1998 through 2002. The study is intended to provide a better understanding of where to focus future safety efforts designed to improve highway transportation for children.

Alcohol related fatalities are defined as fatalities that occur in crashes where at least one driver or non-occupant (pedestrian or pedalcyclist) involved in the crash has a positive Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) value. This report examines the extent of alcohol related fatalities in traffic crashes across states and over time and normalizes this data by estimating the rate of these fatalities as a function of the Annual Vehicle Miles of Travel (VMT) data for that state. The rate of alcohol related fatalities as a measure of the State's VMT serves as an important metric for States and...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHYSA) began to evaluate its federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in 1975. By October 2004, NHTSA had evaluated the effectiveness of virtually all the life-saving technologies introduced in passenger cars, pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans from about 1960 up through the later 1990's. A statistical model estimated the number of lives saved from 1960 to 2002 by the combination of these life-saving technologies. FARS data for 1975-2002 document the actual crash fatalities in vehicles that, especially in recent years,...

The Large-Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS) is a data collection project conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) worked together with FMCSA to develop the LTCCS, which was conducted within the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) that NCSA operates. The tables in this report were created through the use of the data collected in the LTCCS. While the LTCCS collected data on...