Exploring Completeness and Accuracy of Driver Crash Reporting of Property Damage Only Crashes

Summary:

This project proposes an exploration of reprising an electronic citizen crash report for Property Damage Only (PDO) crashes to determine if the data provided is found to be adequately complete and accurate to supplement crash data in the absence of police reported PDO crashes. The study proposes to simulate PDO crash exposure among a population of drivers, with no experience in crash reporting, and analyze their inputted data in the MNCrash crash reporting system (or replica) to determine their degree of completeness and accuracy. Citizen provided crash data will be compared to data provided by trained police officers who are presented the same simulated crash scene and compared to a gold standard crash report (validated by multiple experts). Findings may result in the human-centered design and testing of an abbreviated electronic PDO crash report for citizen reporting and recommendations regarding its use.

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Project Personnel:

Principal Investigator:  Nichole Morris

Co-Principal Investigator:  Katelyn Schwieters

Technical Liaison:  Joe Gustafson

Project Coordinator:  Briah Carlson

Panel Members: 
Brandon Walters - DPS, Office of Traffic Safety
Jeremy Ellison - City of St. Paul - Commander
Loren Hill - State Aid for Local Transp
Nathan Drews - Traffic Engineering
Peter Easterlund - University of Minnesota
William Kessler - University of Minnesota