Research details dramatic impact of government response to coronavirus on accidents.
The University of California, Davis Road Ecology Center last week detailed observations of reported traffic incidents in its real-time California Highway Incident Processing System (CHIPS), that provide an indication of the dramatic decline in traffic incidents on state highways and rural roads that has resulted from the Governor’s “shelter in place” order.
In its Special Report: Impact of COVID19 on California Traffic Accidents, the Center estimates that since the order went into effect, collisions and especially injury and fatality collisions have been reduced by half, from approximately 1,000
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