What is Single-vehicle collision?
Posted on:1/3/2006
| A single vehicle collision or single-vehicle accident is, as the name implies, a type of collision in which only one vehicle is involved. The normal inference is that the cause is operator error.
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Single vehicle collisions are particularly evident among motorcyclists and young males (two groups with a significant overlap). The dominant cause is excessive speed. Some roads are particularly notorious for these crashes, leading to them being termed "dangerous roads". This is a questionable terminology, as it is not usually the road per se which is dangerous.
The term single-vehicle collision is not generally used unless the rider/driver and passengers of the vehicle are the only ones injured: although in some cases innocent bystanders (e.g. pedestrians or cyclists) can also be hurt or killed, the term single-vehicle accident is unlikely to be used to describe such collisions.