Not-in-Traffic Surveillance (NiTS) System. NiTS2007: Noncrash Fatality Database User's Manual

摘要

The Not-in-Traffic Surveillance (NiTS) system is a virtual data collection system designed to provide counts and details regarding fatalities and injuries that occur in nontraffic crashes and in noncrash incidents. The NiTS 2007 system provided information about an estimated 1,159 fatalities and 98,000 injuries that occurred in nontraffic crashes on private roads, on driveways and in parking facilities. The NiTS 2007 system also provided information about an annual average of 588 fatalities and 743,000 injuries in noncrash incidents that occurred inside of or otherwise involved a passenger vehicle. This document describes the creation of the noncrash fatality database using a special death certificate filecontaining information on all accidental deaths that occurred in 2003 and 2004. The file was provided by theCenters for Disease Controls National Vital Statistics System. More than half of the noncrash fatalities occurredwhen a vehicle fell on a person who was usually working under it or from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning. Other frequent categories included falls from vehicles, vehicle fires, struck by an object while in a vehicle or by apart of vehicle such as a door, and hyperthermia and hypothermia inside the vehicle.