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A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
Road traffic collisions generally fall into one of five common types: Lane departure crashes, which occur when a driver leaves the lane they are in and collides with another vehicle or a roadside object. These include head-on collisions and roadway departure collisions. Collisions at junctions, including rear-end collision and angle or side impacts
Accident triangles have been proposed to model the number of minor problems vs. the number of serious incidents. These include Heinrich's triangle [9] and Frank E. Bird's accident ratio triangle (proposed in 1966 and shown above). Many models to characterize and analyze accidents have been proposed, [10] which can be
The penalties (and the definition) of hit-and-run vary from state to state in the United States. [28] For example, in Virginia, the crime is a felony if the crash causes death, injury, or damage to attended property in excess of a certain dollar amount; otherwise, it is a misdemeanor. [29]
A transport accident is any accident or incident that occurs during any type of transportation, including those occurring during road transport, rail transport, marine transport and air transport. [1] It can refer to: a road traffic incident (including vehicle collision, pedestrian–bicycle collisions, pedestrian–pedestrian collisions etc.)
1. Traffic accidents: These accidents occur on roads and highways involving vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, and trucks. 2. Occupational accidents: These accidents happen in the workplace and can involve slips, falls, machinery malfunctions, or exposure to hazardous substances. 3.
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Traffic accident data are often compared between countries and between regions. These comparisons are done in numbers of casualties, but also in relation to the number of inhabitants (a measure of national health risk), the number of vehicle kilometres driven (a measure of the transport risk) as well as the number of cars in a country, etc.