Welcome to the
UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Newsletter
This Issue:
Rural Road Safety
There
are more miles of rural roads than any other type of roadway
in the U.S., and it is on rural roads
where the majority of fatal crashes—about 60 percent—occur.
This issue examines rural-road crashes
from a number of facets. We look at who the victims are and
explore the peculiar problems of rural roads in transition, the
fastest-growing type of road in the U.S., where a failure to
anticipate the burdens of growth is creating newly dangerous
roadways.
Also
included are reports on the
problems facing more traditional remote
rural areas, with a special look at farmworkers.
Rural traffic safety is also affected by the
difficulty of providing emergency medical services within the "golden hour" that has become the modern
benchmark. Finally,
we
look at a sampling of promising rural traffic safety interventions.
We
invite your comments and suggestions.
This newsletter was created by the UC Berkeley
Traffic
Safety Center (TSC) to disseminate important information on
traffic safety topics most relevant to communities in California.
The mission of the TSC is to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries
through multi-disciplinary collaboration in education, research,
and outreach. A main goal of the Center is to make traffic safety
information available and accessible to public and private organizations,
agencies, and businesses, and to individuals.
The TSC newsletter is published quarterly. If you'd like to subscribe
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Photo
courtesy of the California Department of Transportation.
Editor:
Phyllis Orrick, Publications Director, Institute of Transportation
Studies, 510-643-2591
Contributors: Carli Cutchin,
Writer, Institute of Transportation Studies Tammy Wilder,
Webmaster, Traffic Safety Center
Editorial Committee:
David Ragland, Director, Traffic Safety Center
Jill Cooper, Assistant Director, Traffic Safety Center
Judy Geyer, Research Coordinator, Traffic Safety Center
