Most claims of risk compensation offsetting the effects of vehicle regulation and belt use laws have been discredited by research using more refined data.In the 1990s, Hans Mondermans studies of driver behavior led him to the realization that signs and regulations had an adverse effect on a drivers ability to interact safely with other road users. Monderman developed shared space principles, rooted in the principles of the woonerven of the 1970s. He concluded that the removal of highway clutter, while allowing drivers and other road users to mingle with equal priority, could help drivers recognize environmental clues. They relied on their cognitive skills alone, reducing traffic speeds radically and resulting in lower levels of road casualties and lower levels of congestion.Some crashes are intended; staged crashes, for example, involve at least one party who hopes to crash a vehicle in order to submit lucrative claims to an insurance company. In the United States during the 1990s, criminals recruited Latin American immigrants to deliberately crash cars, usually by cutting in front of another car and slamming on the brakes. It was an illegal and risky job, and they were typically paid only $100. Jose Luis Lopez Perez, a staged crash driver, died after one such maneuver, leading to an investigation that uncovered the increasing frequency of this type of crash. Motor vehicle speed
The U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Highway Administration review research on traffic speed in 1998.
John Chamberlain used components of wrecked cars (such as bumpers and crumpled sheet metal fenders) in his welded sculptures.Crash is a 1973 novel by English author J. G. Ballard, about car-crash sexual fetishism that was made into a film by David Cronenberg in 1996. See also
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WHO road traffic injuries
NHTSA Accident Statistics
U.S. DOT Fatality Analysis Reporting System FARS