DRIVING BEHAVIOUR IN EXTREMIS

摘要

This paper presents the results of an analysis of fatal and severe injury crashes involving commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). The analysis included 463 crashes that occurred in Minnesota between July 1 st 2000 and December 31st 2002. The crashes were assigned to one of eleven categories. Three of these categories - stop sign-controlled intersection crashes; rear-end crashes; and crossing-the-centerline crashes - accounted for 287 (62.0%) of the crashes. Further analysis of these three categories suggests that CMV drivers are far less likely than the drivers of other vehicles to take actions that lead to a fatal or severe injury crash.