North Carolina Teenage Driver Crash Characteristics, 2001-2008

Robert D. Foss's study analyzes 256,975 crashes involving North Carolina teenage drivers within their first 36 months of licensure, from 2001 to 2008. The data examines month-to-month changes in crash rates and characteristics, such as vehicle type, speed limit, and maneuver type. It was used to identify which crash types decline more or less quickly during a novice driver's initial years.

Use Cases

• Modeling the decline rate of specific crash types like left-turn or overturn incidents based on time-since-licensing.
• Analyzing the relationship between roadway speed limits and crash frequency for teenage drivers.
• Identifying high-risk driving maneuvers that persist longer into the licensing period, such as rear-end collisions.
• Comparing the temporal patterns of different crash characteristics against the overall declining crash rate.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, high-risk population of 629,144 teenage drivers with intermediate licenses.
• Analyzes a substantial subset of 256,975 crashes occurring within the first 36 months of driving.
• Provides detailed temporal analysis on a month-to-month basis over an 8-year period (2001-2008).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the final analytical dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to North Carolina from 2001-2008.

Provenance

Source

Robert D. Foss

Collection Method

Analysis of North Carolina crash data records.

Time Range

January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2008

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

North Carolina, United States