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Section 402 of the Highway Safety Act required, among other things, that states follow uniform standards, establish an effective crash records system, and investigate crashes to determine probable cause. Section 403 of the act included requirements to improve crash investigation procedures and develop comprehensive crash data collection and analysis procedures (4)
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Traffic records data, particularly information contained in the police crash report, are the basis for virtually all safety programs, from roadside hazard removal to the enforcement of traffic safety legislation. Law enforcement, traffic engineers, the judiciary, private citizens, the medical community, and highway safety program specialists use traffic records data to initiate actions that ultimately may reduce the frequency and severity of motor vehicle crashes of all kinds.
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Underreporting or errors in crash reporting affect decisions regarding the selection of crash countermeasures, law enforcement activities, allocation of funding at state and local levels, and numerous other traffic safety and transportation system management activities. • Timeliness -- In the late 1960s, NHTSA found that crash data were often several months to a year old by the time they were available in the crash reporting system.
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Beginning in the early 1990s, many technologies were proven useful in the area of crash records systems. These included the following projects: • Technocar 2000 -- This project, funded by FHWA, NHTSA, and the Texas DOT, proved the use of innovative technologies in a law enforcement vehicle to improve the ability of the officer to collect data and report locations, and the ability to establish a link with other sources of information.
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The use of a precise location reference method is a critical aspect of crash data, whether analyzing the location of crash occurrences or using the location reference to link crashes to other data sources. Before the passage of the ISTEA legislation in 1991, complete location reference systems were generally available only for those roadways on the state-maintained highway system.
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, overcoming disincentives, educating and training the decision makers and the users and providers of data, and implementing new processes to effect change in the crash records systems. The implementation plan for the international scan for traffic safety information systems (35)
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