Traffic Tech Number 190 January 1999

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Traffic Tech

Technology Transfer Series

Number 190 January 1999

STATE TRAFFIC SAFETY INFORMATION

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has compiled current information (as of

January 1, 1998) about traffic safety issues for all of the states in a single document. State Traffic Safety

Information lists motor vehicle fatalities and fatality rates for each state and for the United States as a

whole in a number of areas such as alcohol-impaired and speed-related crashes. For each state, there are

estimated economic costs for crashes and the dollar value borne by employers. The individual state data

sheets break out the deaths by alcohol and speed related, safety belt and child safety seat usage, and

motorcycle helmet usage.

There is also information on the status of important drunk driving laws such as Administrative License

Revocation, .08 BAC per se, zero tolerance for drivers under age 21, and graduated licensing, and sources

of NHTSA highway safety program funds. NHTSA plans to update the booklet annually. An example for the

state of Ohio is below.

HOW TO ORDER

For a copy of State Traffic Safety Information, write to the Office of Research and Traffic Records,

NHTSA, NTS-31, 400 Seventh Street S.W., Washington, DC 20590, or send a fax to (202) 366-7096. Tina

Mills maintains these data.

State of Ohio

1996 Ohio U.S.

Fatalities 1,395 41,907

Fatality Rate per VMT 1.4 1.7

Fatality Rate per Population 12.49 15.80

1994 Economic Cost of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes

Ohio $7.125 Billion
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U.S. Total $150.469 Billion

Employer Costs $2.841 Billion ($560 Per Employee)

Alcohol Involvement in Fatal

Crashes, 1996

Occupant Restraint Use

Rates, 1996

Fatal Crashes that are Speed

Related, 1996

Percentage

> 0.01

Percentage

> 0.10

Fatally Injured

Car Occupants

Observed Use Percentages

Ohio 33.3% 26.3% 40.6% 62% 24.9%

U.S. 40.8% 32.2% 41.5% 68% 30.4%

AVAILABLE NHTSA FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Highway Safety Program Funds

FY 1996 FY 1997

Section 402 Grant (NHTSA) $4,719,736 $4,721,806

Section 402 Grant (FHWA) $417,744 $434,892

Section 410 Grant $1,477,746 $0

Section 403 Contract/Grant $88,000 $153,996

SAFETY TOTAL $6,703,226 $5,310,694

DRUNK DRIVING

Status of Key Legislative Issues

Administrative license revocation Yes

0.08 BAC per se law No

Zero tolerance for drivers under age 21 Yes (0.02 BAC)

Graduated licensing Yes

Qualifies for Section 410 Incentive Grant Program No

Supplemental Criteria

SPEED Number of Fatalities Involved in

Speed Related Crashes, 1996

Percent of Fatal Crashes that

are Speed Related, 1996

Estimated Cost of all Speed

Related Crashes, 1996

Ohio 357 24.9% $ 1.242 Billion

U.S.

Total

12,998 30.4% $ 28.805 Billion

SAFETY BELTS Passenger Vehicle Occupant Deaths (age 5+) Current Lives Saved Savable at 100%

Total Restrained Unrestrained

Ohio 1,095 409 686 371 693

Secondary law -- Eff May 86 -- Front seat occupants of passenger/commercial car, van, truck -- $ 25 Fine

CHILD SAFETY SEATS Occupant Deaths (age <5) Current Lives Saved Savable at 100%

Total Restrained Unrestrained

Ohio 18 13 5 16 20

Restraint req < 4 -- Seat req < 4 -- Eff Mar 83 -- May substitute safety belt > 4 & > 40 lbs. -- $ 100 Fine

MOTORCYCLE HELMETS Motorcycle Rider Deaths Current Lives Saved Savable at 100%

Total Helmeted Unhelmeted
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Ohio 117 8 109 3 35

Helmet use required for all riders <18 and first year novice -- Eff Jul 78 -- $ 100 - $ 500 Fines

NHTSA, December 1997

U.S. Department

of Transportation

National Highway 

Traffic Safety 

Administration

400 Seventh Street, S.W. NTS-31

Washington, DC 20590

Traffic Tech is a publication to disseminate

information about traffic safety programs,

including evaluations, innovative programs,

and new publications. Feel free to copy it as you wish.

If you would like to receive a copy contact:

Linda Cosgrove, Ph.D., Editor, Evaluation Staff

Traffic Safety Programs

(202) 366-2759, fax (202) 366-7096

E-MAIL: lcosgrove@nhtsa.dot.gov