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| Atlanta Metro Area Traffic Report 2002 - 2004 |
| Traffic accidents cost the Atlanta region $4.7B annually
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) reported in October 2006 from its "Traffic Crash Profiles for the Atlanta Region."
18 counties -- Barrow, Bartow, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale, Spalding and Walton
Traffic accidents takes place every 2.8 minutes on surface streets across the 18-county metro area
Regional cost of traffic crashes: $4.7 billion a year
Approximately 45% of the 189,422 crashes each year take place at intersections |
Of the 10 most crash-prone intersections in the region, half are in Cobb County.
- Austell Road at East-West Connector (Cobb, 477 crashes)
- Barrett Parkway at Cobb Place Boulevard (Cobb, 377)
- Cobb Parkway at Barrett Parkway (Cobb, 376)
- Tara Boulevard at North Avenue (Clayton, 368)
- Sigman Road at Walnut Grove Road (Rockdale, 324)
- Buford Highway at Lenox Road (Fulton, 316)
- Chastain Road at Busbee Parkway (Cobb, 296)
- Alpharetta Highway at Houze Way (Fulton, 291)
- Austell Road at South Cobb Drive (Cobb, 263)
- Roswell Road at Abernathy Road (Fulton, 231)
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Most collisions in the 18-county region per year
- Fulton County, 47,955
- DeKalb: 32,671
- Gwinnett: 27,776
- Cobb: 26,742
- Clayton: 11,939
The average annual crash rate per county: 10,523 |
Most crash-prone time of day: 5:01 p.m. to 6 p.m., nearly 16,000 accidents annually
- More than 25% of all crashes: People ages 25 to 34
- People ages 16 to 34 account for nearly half of all accidents
- Those 65 to 74 account for about 3 percent of crashes.
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Rear-end collisions: 43% of all crashes annually
- Following too closely: 38 percent of all crashes
- Failure to yield: 17%
- Improper lane change: 8%
- Driver losing control: 5%
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Fatalities in traffic collisions in the 18-county region annually: 562
- Fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled: 1.1
- Fatal crash occurs once every 15.6 hours in the region
- Fatal crashes at intersections: 28%
- Injury crashes: 45,754
- Injuries per year: 68,310
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Spalding County injury rate/100 million vehicle miles traveled at 208.4
- Clayton: 168.9
- DeKalb 162.5
- Gwinnett: 142.4
- Douglas 140.8
- Average annual county injury rate: 137.9
Statistics in the report represent surface streets -- not freeways and interstates -- due to limitations on the data. |
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