https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/02/pro-traffic-camera-study-case-closed/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/02/pro-traffic-camera-study-case-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-115101 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:06:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=21431#comment-115101 The report on this study can be found here:
http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/pdf/r1151.pdf
In order for your death to count in this study, it had to be from “subset of these crashes that involved a driver traveling straight who was assigned the driver level contributing factor of “failure to obey traffic control devices.”
It is hard not to interpret this to mean that if a death resulted from a collision that was related to someone doing a premature panic stop on a yellow light, either a “rear end” pileup or loss of control from trying to avoid such a collision, it would not count for the purposes of this study.
Studies by IIHS researchers have been criticized in past academic literature reviews (e.g.: http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/fphr/volume+5.htm) for excluding accidents on the intersection “approaches” from their analysis, so I have to say this doesn’t surprise me, although I do find it disappointing.

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