1. Nancy Pullen-Seufert ADTSEA Conference, July 23, 2018
Preventing Crashes with Pedestrians and Bicyclists New Tools for Teaching
Nancy Pullen-Seufert
ADTSEA Conference, July 23, 2018

2. How does this fit with your work?

3. How has the driving experience changed in the past 10 years?
Safety features
Automated vehicles
V to V communication
V to infrastructure communication
Roadway design and signage
Increase traffic and types of transportation
What else?

4. Ch-ch-ch-changes
1 in 12 U.S. households does not own an automobile (2009 National Household Travel Survey)
Approx. 13 % of persons 15 & older do not drive (2009 NHTS)
127 million walking trips &
9 million bike trips in the U.S. every day (2009 NHTS).

6. What’s at stake?
Between 2007 – 2016: Ped fatalities increased 27% while all other traffic deaths decreased 14%*
Driver trauma
Many other issues including monetary and social costs
*GHSA Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State, 2017 Preliminary Data.
Ped deaths now account for about 14% of all traffic deaths.
Bicyclists account for 2%

7. Pedestrian crash factors
Between 2009 – 2016: Pedestrian deaths increased 46%
Largest increases seen in:
Urban areas
Arterials
Non-intersections
Dark conditions
Greatest increases wi SUVs
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety An examination of the increases in pedestrian motor vehicle crash fatalities during 2009–16.
Need to address road design, speed, vehicle design & lighting
Countermeasures: improve urban arterials w road diets, median crossing islands, ped hybrid beacons, & automated speed enforcement. Better road lighting and vehicle headlights could improve ped visibility at night.
Speed – traffic calming, automated enforcement & roundabouts all proven coutnermeasures

8. What can be done Roadway design Slow speeds Improve lighting
Ex: Road diets, median crossing islands, ped hybrid beacons, roundabouts
Slow speeds
Ex: Changes to roadway, automated enforcement
Improve lighting
Driver, pedestrian, bicyclist behavior
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety An examination of the increases in pedestrian motor vehicle crash fatalities during 2009–16.
Need to address road design, speed, vehicle design & lighting
Countermeasures: improve urban arterials w road diets, median crossing islands, ped hybrid beacons, & automated speed enforcement. Better road lighting and vehicle headlights could improve ped visibility at night.
Speed – traffic calming, automated enforcement & roundabouts all proven coutnermeasures

9. Visualizing common crashes with animation
Multiple threat crash
Right turn into bicyclist
Left turn into pedestrian
Attempt to pass bicyclist
All follow same arc:
Describe crash type
Show
List behavior changes
Re-show

10. What’s the opportunity?
Pre-drive preparation
Introduces situations students might not encounter on local roads
Triggers discussion

12. Multiple threat aerial view
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13. Multiple threat driver view

14. Multiple threat pedestrian view

15. Discussion ideas How can a driver help prevent a crash?
What actions may be missing from each of the road users (i.e. checking mirrors, failure to look both ways, etc)?
What are the relevant state or local laws?
How do the situations relate to local roads?

16. Limitations
Mirrors
Discusses behavior only

18. How to prevent pedestrian and bicyclist crashes
Handouts on
How to prevent pedestrian and bicyclist crashes

19. When language is a barrier The basics: Watching speed limit, stopping for pedestrians, yielding to oncoming bicyclists, no phone.

20. For more information on handout or motion graphics:
Paula Bawer, NHTSA,

21. New legislation in Illinois: The Dutch Reach Bill
Image: Active Transportation Alliance

22. What does the bill do?
Meant to address rising number of dooring crashes in Chicago and prevent everywhere
After parallel parking on a street, check mirrors then open door with right hand
Inclusion in Ilinois Rules of the Road handbook
Test questions may include Dutch Reach
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall include, in the Illinois Rules of the Road publication, information advising drivers to use the Dutch Reach method when opening a vehicle door. Provides that the Secretary of State shall include a test question concerning bicycle safety, of which one may be concerning the Dutch Reach method, in the question pool used for the written portion of the drivers license examination.
Per the bill: when opening a vehicle door after
parallel parking on a street (checking the rear-view mirror,
checking the side-view mirror, then opening the door with the
right hand, thereby reducing the risk of injuring a bicyclist
or opening the door in the path a vehicle approaching from
behind).
Dooring crashes on the rise in chicago.
Research shows dutch reach method can prevent injuries.

23. Nancy Pullen-Seufert pullen@hsrc.unc.edu
Thank you!
Nancy Pullen-Seufert

24. What might contribute to the increase?
More walking
Hand held electronic devices
Marijuana
Opioids
Economic conditions
Need to address road design, speed, vehicle design & lighting
Countermeasures: improve urban arterials w road diets, median crossing islands, ped hybrid beacons, & automated speed enforcement. Better road lighting and vehicle headlights could improve ped visibility at night.
Speed – traffic calming, automated enforcement & roundabouts all proven coutnermeasures
GHSA Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State, 2017 Preliminary Data.