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AAA STUDY * USA - Shows yearly accident cost is $160B
Traffic crashes cost American motorists more than $160 billion a year while inflicting a staggering per-person toll on small cities...
Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News -March 5, 2008: -- ... such as Little Rock, Ark., Columbia, S.C., and Pensacola, Fla., according to a AAA research report... The study, to be released Wednesday, found that traffic crashes have a much more damaging impact on society than the bumper-to-bumper congestion that riles commuters in many metropolitan areas... Maryland-based Cambridge Systematics Inc ., which conducted the research for the automobile association, found that crashes cost U.S. motorists $164.2 billion a year, or about $1,051 per person. That's more than double the $67.6 billion in annual costs from congestion, or about $430 per person. To calculate the crash costs, researchers took into account factors such as property damage, lost earnings, medical costs, emergency services, legal costs and travel delays. Research found crashes cost $868 a person in the Detroit Metro region... (Video from YouTube, by kk26 -January 17, 2007: "Icy car crashes in Portland" -Crazy home video showing a series of car accidents due to an icy road in Portland -)
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