Author(s):
F.L. Lynch, C.J. Keese
Publication Date
1964
Abstract
In cooperation with the Automotive Safety Foundation, TTI conducted research on the effects of traffic accidents on freeway operation.|Recommendations were made by the Project Advisory Committee on various areas of needed research. With their guidance, a research project was established to determine areas where possible improvements could be made in reducing the time lost to freeway users due to an accident occurring on the freeway and restricting the flow. Another phase of the study included the determination of the drivers' reaction to the situation once involved in an accident.|This report is designed to encourage awareness on the part of the police departments, the investigating officers, and the freeway drivers of the problems encountered by each after an accident and to indicate problem areas that may be improved by departmental operation changes, individual improvements, and increased education of the freeway drivers.|Questionnaires were distributed to several Texas cities to determine procedures followed by the police departments, wrecker units, ambulances, and drivers after a freeway accident.|Insurance agencies were also requested to give the opinions on particular problems in claim adjustments of freeway accidents.
Report Number:
Bulletin No. 28
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