Exploring Completeness and Accuracy of Driver Crash Reporting of Property Damage Only Crashes
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.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $199,681.00
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Contract Numbers:
1058811
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Sponsor Organizations:
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St. Paul, Minnesota United States 55155-1899 -
Managing Organizations:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Office of Research & Innovation
395 John Ireland Boulevard, MS 330
St. Paul, MN United States 55155-1899 -
Performing Organizations:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN United States 55455 -
Principal Investigators:
Morris, Nichole L
- Start Date: 20250812
- Expected Completion Date: 20270630
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash data; Crash reports; Data entry; Human factors engineering
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01968089
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 1058811
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Oct 8 2025 10:25AM