Stop versus yield on pedestrian-involved fatal crashes in the United States |
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Authors: | Young-Jun Kweon S. Emily Hartman Cheryl W. Lynn |
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Affiliation: | aVirginia Transportation Research Council, 530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, United States |
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Abstract: | In an effort to improve pedestrian safety, several states in the United States changed their pedestrian laws by changing the requirement that drivers yield to pedestrians in crosswalks to a requirement that drivers stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. This study examined whether this change had an effect on pedestrian safety in the United States, with its focus on low-speed roads. To examine the association between changes in pedestrian laws and changes in pedestrian-involved fatal crashes, three approaches were employed: before–after analysis, time-series analysis, and cross-sectional analysis. Pedestrian-involved fatal traffic crashes on low-speed roads were extracted from the U.S. national fatal crash database, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), from 1980 through 2005. This study found no statistically significant reduction in pedestrian-involved fatal crashes attributable to changes in the laws, yet this finding is not definitive because of study limitations such as the omission of relevant exposure data. |
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Keywords: | Traffic safety Crash analysis Pedestrian law |
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