Accidents on Maryland Roads Highlight Ongoing Dangers
A Capital News Service analysis of Maryland SHA data shows nearly 96,000 road accidents in 1994 with 111 pedestrian deaths and 3,060 injuries. Drivers account for about 75 percent of crashes due to speeding, distraction, or following too closely, while weather and road defects contribute less. The study notes Friday and the 3 to 7 pm window as peak times and cites Maryland’s plan to boost speed limit compliance to 85 percent and seat belt use to 75 percent.
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Gaithersburg
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Hi tech monitors tracking Maryland roads in CHART system
In a State Highway Administration center in Linthicum Maryland a wall of eighteen TV screens watches interstate and beltway traffic. CHART combines weather gauges speed monitors and cameras across routes with a color coded computer map showing speeds within five miles per hour. More than 15 supercomputers feed real time data to traffic engineers aiding rapid dispatch and trouble spot detection.
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Frederick
Chuck Brown
Highway Administration
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Accident rate down but fatalities rise in Maryland
Maryland vehicular accidents fell slowly in early 1995 while fatalities rose, as Capital News Service analysis of State Highway Administration records shows. Total vehicle miles traveled rose nearly 8 percent from 1993, with 64 percent on major highways, and 349 deaths by midyear 1995, up over the prior year but likely to be a decade low by year end.
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Panel predicts 21 percent cut in auto insurance rates
Governor Glendening will receive a report from the Maryland Governor's Commission on Baltimore City Automobile Insurance Rate Reduction this week. The panel's chair David Funk says, if adopted, auto insurance premiums could fall as much as 21 percent statewide. The report recommends legislation to reduce medical costs and attorney involvement in bodily injury claims, curb fraud, reduce mandatory coverages, and pay personal injury protection only to reimburse expenses not covered by health or disability benefits. The commission notes disparities between city and state rates and avoids an end to territorial rating.
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