Resources and Statistics
Cost of motor vehicle crashes in Cuyahoga County:
This contains a workbook with spreadsheets showing the economic cost of crashes and the comprehensive costs of crashes in Cuyahoga County and in each individual city in Cuyahoga County. These estimates are derived using crash data from the Ohio Department of Public Safety and average cost per injury estimates from the National Safety Council. The data can be imported into Microsoft Excel.
Economic cost estimates should be used whenever estimating the cost to the community in past years. The data shown here is from 2004. These are calculable costs and include wage and productivity losses, medical expenses, administrative expenses, motor vehicle damage, and uninsured employer costs. These costs are broken down by each death (not each fatal crash), injury (not each injury crash), and property damage crash.
Comprehensive cost estimates should be used for cost-benefit analysis of traffic safety measures to prevent future injuries. It includes the value of a person's natural desire to live longer or protect the quality of one's life. In other words, it includes the willingness-to-pay of people to improve safety and prevent future injury and death due to motor vehicle crashes. These estimates were obtained through empirical studies of what people actually pay to reduce their health and safety risks.
Keep in mind that these data are estimates and should be treated as such. All dollar amounts should be rounded to indicate they are estimates. As a general rule, values less than $3,000,000 should be rounded to the nearest $100,000, values between $3,000,000 and $10,000,000 should be rounded to the nearest $500,000, values between $10,000,000 and $30,000,000 round to the nearest $1,000,000, and values over $30,000,000 round to the nearest $5,000,000.
Enforcement Fact Sheets
These are fact sheets in .jpg format of data and statistics of overtime enforcement activities and speed and seat belt surveys conducted during FFY2005 for selected cities. Only cities who received state and federal highway funds for traffic safety enforcement are represented. Click here...
Traffic Crash Facts
These are fact sheets in .jpg format that look similar to the ones above, but show crash data for 11 counties in the Northeast Ohio region. Each sheet has data on alcohol-related crashes, restraint use in fatal crashes, injuries, fatalities, and demographics. Click here...
Source:
*National Safety Council, Injury Facts. 2003. http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/estcost.htm
*Ohio Department of Public Safety, Traffic Crash Facts. 2004 http://www.publicsafety.ohio.gov/crashes/crash_facts.asp
Updated on:
May 8, 2008
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