Seminar
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Exploring the Comparative Effects of Behavioral and Situational Correlates and Objects of Impact in the Injury Outcomes of Motorcycle Collisions
Monday, October 12
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. CDT
University of Minnesota
Room 1130
Mechanical
Engineering Building
111 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Webinar
About the Seminar
In the US, motorcyclists continue to contribute disproportionately to traffic fatalities and serious injuries—in 2008, motorcycles were about 3 percent of vehicle registrations while motorcyclists represented 14 percent of traffic fatalities.
Motorcycle crashes occur quickly, across a span of seconds. For some collisions, there are moments during which a motorcyclist might have choices: swerving or crashing into a moving vehicle, jumping off or laying the motorcycle down, crashing into a bush or tree, driving off the road, heading for an open ditch, colliding with a mailbox, or other options.
Which of these evasive strategies should be pursued? Is colliding with a car more or less lethal than crashing into road infrastructure?
The objective of this analysis is to provide evidence to answer such questions by exploring the comparative contributions of individual characteristics, behavioral choices, and the situational context to motorcycle injury outcomes, particularly in terms of the objects of impact, using data from police crash reports in Indiana for the years 2003 to 2008.
Speaker 
Samuel Nunn
Samuel Nunn, Ph.D., is a professor of criminal justice in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and director of the IUPUI Center for Criminal Justice Research. He has led many research projects involving Indiana criminal justice agencies, as well as a series of in-depth analyses of vehicular crashes and traffic safety programs within the state of Indiana.
More Information
Contact Laura Noble at 612-626-0564 or lnoble@umn.edu.
Parking and Transit
Parking is available at the Washington
Avenue Ramp, the Church
Street Garage, or the University
Avenue Ramp. For transit information, call Metro Transit
at 612-373-3333 or visit www.metrotransit.org.
Sponsors
This seminar is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, in cooperation with the Center
for Transportation Studies and the Humphrey Institute's State
and Local Policy Program. |
