Product No.: 08034
Date Published: 01/2008
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Between 2000 and 2006 there were 210 reported pedestrian-motorist crashes in nine PennDOT-defined pedestrian crash priority clusters on intersecting a four-mile-long segment of North Broad Street (PA 611) from Diamond to Nedro streets, possibly the heaviest concentration of such crashes in the entire Pennsylvania state highway system. Police reports for these crashes were coded and analyzed using the Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool (PBCAT), a database application for classifying pedestrian- and bicyclist-involved motor vehicle crashes according to the specific actions of the motorist and the pedestrian precipitating the crash. The age distribution of the pedestrians involved, the time of day and day of the week in which crashes occurred, and roadway illumination levels at the time of the crash were also examined. The information is intended for use in conjunction with a planned road safety audit to aid the audit team in identifying and prioritizing appropriate crash-related engineering, enforcement, and education countermeasures.Geographic Area Covered: North Philadelphia
Key Words: pedestrian, crashes, road safety audit, contributing factors, PBCAT, safety action plan
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- Kevin S. Murphy (kmurphy@dvrpc.org)
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