By Fault* - 2004
* In every
crash, one vehicle or person is considered at fault.
When two or more vehicles crash one of the vehicles is determined to be at fault by the police. Between a pedestrian and a car, either the car or pedestrian is determined at fault. In a single vehicle crash the car involved in considered at fault. This 'fault' designation is attached to the data so that one can determine whether a death occurred to a person in a vehicle at fault or not. (For convenience a pedestrian is included in the term vehicle.) Hence, one can determine lifetime risk of being a traffic fatality if you are never in a car where the driver was at fault.
When two or more vehicles crash one of the vehicles is determined to be at fault by the police. Between a pedestrian and a car, either the car or pedestrian is determined at fault. In a single vehicle crash the car involved in considered at fault. This 'fault' designation is attached to the data so that one can determine whether a death occurred to a person in a vehicle at fault or not. (For convenience a pedestrian is included in the term vehicle.) Hence, one can determine lifetime risk of being a traffic fatality if you are never in a car where the driver was at fault.
This
page looks at lifetime risk of a death by fault. To see lifetime
risk by sex independent of fault go here .
Findings:
- For California males, if in
a
vehicle at fault in a crash, the
cumulative
risk of a traffic death for the age 1 to 75 is much higher then being
in a vehicle not at fault: .8 per hundred when
at fault,
compared .3 per hundred when not at
fault. The risk of a traffic
death is much lower if one drives safely or rides with someone who
drives safely than not following such practices.
| Lifetime
Risk by Sex and Fault/No Fault |
| Risk Per Year of Age by Sex and Fault/No Fault |
| Cumulative Risk Per Year of Age by Sex and Fault/No Fault |
The data on the next chart represents
the
risk per 100,000 of dying in a crash on the roads of California for
each year of life. These crashes include pedestrian, bicycle, and
anything that occurs on the California roadways.
The risk of dying in a fatal crash is dramatically higher if one is in a vehicle that is at fault or a pedestrian at fault compared to not being at fault.
The risk of dying in a fatal crash is dramatically higher if one is in a vehicle that is at fault or a pedestrian at fault compared to not being at fault.
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+ For males, the rate of being a fatality in a vehicle at fault is 826 per 100,000, or a little under 1 per hundred. Table for Chart + Females are much less likely to be in a crash where the vehicle is at fault. |
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+ Generally the rate of death in 'not at fault' vehicles is higher for males than females. Table for Chart + For females, there is a dip in the rate of death in the mid - 20's to about 40+ For males after about 20 years of age the rate is basically flat. |
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+ Generally the rate of death in 'at fault' vehicles is much higher for males than females. Table for Chart + For both males and females, there is a decline after the early 20' until, approximately, age 60 and above. |
This presentation is a method of examining cumulative risk over a lifetime as a person ages from 1 to 75. The data on the cumulative findings represent the accumulated risk faced by a certain per year of age in life. The data goes from the age of 1 to 75. Hence, the result at age 75 is the total accumulated risk experienced up to that time, the rate of risk stayed the same as the year for which it is presented.
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+ This
chart adds the rates cumulatively from 1 to 75 years of age. |
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+ This
chart adds the rates cumulatively from 1 to 75 years of age. + The difference between males and females begins at age 14. (Table for Chart) |
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