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Table 3.4 presents the PTW
collision partners for all cases collected during this research
project. Passenger cars were the most frequent collision partner
(60.0%), followed by the roadway
(9.0%). The high percentage of
passenger car, truck, sport utility vehicle (SUV) and bus collision
partners is not unusual since most of the accidents took place in an
urban environment where PTWs must share the roadway with other
motorized vehicles. This distribution only represents the object
with which the PTW ultimately collided, and does not suggest
accident causation, since there were many cases in which the PTW
rider successfully avoided colliding with a car, PTW, truck, etc.,
but instead impacted the roadway or some other fixed object. The PTW
collision partner is not necessarily the OV. Single vehicle
accidents (e.g., running off the roadway) are also included in this
distribution.
Table
3.4: PTW collision partner
|
|
Frequency
|
Percent
|
|
Passenger car
|
553
|
60.0
|
|
Another PTW
|
64
|
6.9
|
|
Truck/SUV/bus/
|
77
|
8.4
|
|
Bicycle/pedestrian
|
19
|
2.1
|
|
Fixed object
|
74
|
8.0
|
|
Roadway
|
83
|
9.0
|
|
Parked vehicle
|
25
|
2.7
|
|
Animal
|
3
|
0.3
|
|
Other
|
23
|
2.5
|
|
Total
|
921
|
100.0
|
Table 3.5 indicates that the majority of the
accidents collected during this study involved a collision with an
OV (80.2%). One hundred and
forty-three of the cases (15.5%) involved only the PTW and
PTW rider (e.g., a single vehicle accident).
Table 3.5: Number
of OVs involved in the accident
|
|
Frequency
|
Percent
|
|
None (single vehicle
accident)
|
143
|
15.5
|
|
One
|
738
|
80.2
|
|
Two
|
36
|
3.9
|
|
Three
|
4
|
0.4
|
|
Total
|
921
|
100.0
|
Table 3.6 indicates that the
majority of accidents involved only the PTW operator and that
8.6% of all cases involved a PTW
passenger. There were no cases collected with more than one PTW
passenger. Table 3.7 shows the number of fatal PTW
accidents in which a passenger was present. Please note that the
value presented in Table 3.7 does not represent the number of
passengers who were killed, but rather the number of cases in which
there was a fatality involved in the crash. There were only five
cases in which the passenger was reported as the
fatality.
Table
3.6: Number of passengers on PTW
|
|
Frequency
|
Percent
|
|
None
|
842
|
91.4
|
|
One
|
79
|
8.6
|
|
Total
|
921
|
100.0
|
Table 3.7: Number
of passengers on PTW (fatal accidents only)
|
|
Frequency
|
Percent
|
|
None
|
90
|
87.4
|
|
One
|
13
|
12.6
|
|
Total
|
103
|
100.0
|
|