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Dawn L. Massie
Bio: Dawn L. Massie is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crash & Collision. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 11 publications receiving 651 citations.
Topics: Crash, Collision, Collision avoidance, Population, Poison control
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TL;DR: Men had a higher risk than women of experiencing a fatal crash, while women had higher rates of involvement in injury crashes and all police-reported crashes.
445 citations
TL;DR: Results of the modelling show men to have a consistently higher risk of crash involvement per mile driven than women for all six combinations of crash severity and light condition examined, consistent with the idea that women's typically low average annual mileage is a factor in their observed higher non-fatal crash involvement rates.
155 citations
TL;DR: An effort to identify and rank vehicle collision scenarios in order to create a "collision typology" that could aid in the assessment of the potential benefit of accident avoidance technologies suggested that in collisions at nonsignalized intersections, older drivers often stopped and then pulled out into oncoming traffic, while younger drivers more often failed to stop at all.
42 citations
10 citations
01 Oct 1995
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide tools which describe personal and societal losses caused by motor vehicle crashes and provide tools to prioritize their countermeasure approach for 30 different crash types, including single and multiple vehicle crashes.
Abstract: The personal and societal losses caused by motor vehicle crashes are significant. This paper provides tools which describe these losses for 30 different crash types. Persons involved with the development and implementation of crash countermeasures can use these tools to prioritize their countermeasure approach. Multiple vehicle crashes currently account for much larger direct costs but only slightly more years lost than single vehicle crashes. Direct expenditures on multiple vehicle crashes exceed $41 billion per year; they claim 974,000 years of life and functioning. Direct expenditures on single vehicle crashes exceed $18 billion per year; they claim 937,000 years of life and functioning.
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TL;DR: Insight is offered into potential measures to counter the adverse effects of weather on highway sections with challenging geometrics by studying the relationship between weather and geometric elements.
736 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a negative binomial regression of the frequency of accidents at intersection approaches is proposed to estimate the accident reduction benefits of various proposed intersection improvements on operationally deficient intersections.
Abstract: Traffic accidents at urban intersections result in a huge cost to society in terms of death, injury, lost productivity, and property damage. Unfortunately, the elements that effect the frequency of intersection accidents are not well understood and, as a result, it is difficult to predict the effectiveness of specific intersection improvements that are aimed at reducing accident frequency. Using seven-yr accident histories from 63 intersections in Bellevue, Washington (all of which were targeted for operational improvements), this paper estimates a negative binomial regression of the frequency of accidents at intersection approaches. The estimation results uncover important interactions between geometric and traffic-related elements and accident frequencies. The findings of this paper provide exploratory methodological and empirical evidence that could lead to an approach to estimate the accident reduction benefits of various proposed improvements on operationally deficient intersections.
586 citations
TL;DR: The results suggest that the youngest and the oldest drivers were more likely to be considered at-fault, and it was concluded that the primary problem with the young is risk-taking and lack of skill.
550 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize salient developments in research on aging and vision over the past 25 years, focusing on spatial contrast sensitivity, vision under low luminance, temporal sensitivity and motion perception, and visual processing speed.
545 citations
TL;DR: Information is provided about the validity of the Driver Behaviour Questionnaire that has strong relevance for researchers and road safety practitioners who seek to obtain insight into driving behaviors of a population of interest.
455 citations