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Road Safety Fundamentals
Concepts, Strategies, and Practices that Reduce Fatalities and Injuries on the Road

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

UNIT 4. Solving Safety Problems

Table: Calculating monetary benefit of crash reduction
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Crash Severity Fatal A-injury B-injury C-injury PDO
IV Crash Reduction Benefit 0 0.81 0.81 1.62 0
V This City’s Standard Crash Cost $5 mil $400,000 $100,000 $60,000 $10,000
VI Monetary benefit of crash reduction (IV x V) 0 $324,000 $81,000 $97,200 0

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Felix Delgado, FHWA Office of Safety
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