Deer-vehicle crashes in North Carolina and the United States : a profile

              Department of Transportation to promote cooperative efforts to address the problem of deer vehicle crashes. It brings together staff members from the natural resources and transportation departments of five midwestern states, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It is an information resource for anyone looking for information relating to deer- vehicle collisions, including best practices, crash statistics, and more.
DeerCrash. com maintains a Countermeasure Toolbox that contains detailed summaries and evaluations of DVC countermeasure information, focused on the current state- of- the knowledge related to 16 potential DVC countermeasures. These include such strategies as in- vehicle technologies, speed limit reduction, exclusionary fencing, roadway maintenance, design, and planning policies, wildlife crossings, and others.
North Carolina Wildlife Commission. Coexisting with Wildlife.
Online at http:// www. ncwildlife. org/ fs_ index_ 06_ coexist. htm
Photo and image credits
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Washington, D. C. : Federal Highway Administration. Online at: http:// mutcd. fhwa. dot. gov/
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Image Library. Online at: http:// images. fws. gov/
Data Source for 2003 Statistics -
North Carolina Deer Vehicle Crashes.
The source of data for the tables that appear on the following pages is narrative files that were extracted from the reports submitted by investigating law enforcement officers following deer vehicle crashes that were reported to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles in 2003.
Notes: The following tables are for reported crashes between deer and motor vehicles in North Carolina in 2003. There is evidence that a great many more of these crashes occur than are reported to law enforcement agencies.
Crashes were counted on the basis of the appearance of the word “ deer” in the investigating officer’s narrative. In some of these narratives, the actual cause of the crash is unclear, but there is a high likelihood of occurrence of a deer related crash.
Acknowledgment
The assistance of Eric A. Rodgman, HSRC Senior Database Analyst, who performed the original data searches from the NCDMV narrative files, and generated data for the tables, is greatly appreciated.
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