Run-Off-Road Crashes
In Montana, crash reports do not have a specific code for "run-off-the-road" crashes although collisions with fixed objects, overturns and immersions, and single vehicle crashes are assumed to involve "run off the road."
From 2001 to 2010, 29 to 31 percent of all crashes in Montana involved a single vehicle running off the road. During the same period, from 56 to 66 percent of Montana's fatal crashes involved a single vehicle running of the road. Montana's high proportion of rural vehicle miles of travel on low-volume roads at typically high speeds makes this a particular critical traffic safety issue for the State.
Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan
New strategies to reduce these crashes focus on roadway design and greater public awareness of this highway safety issue.
Objective
Reduce and mitigate the consequences of Single Vehicle Run-Off-the-Road fatal and incapacitating injury crashes.
Performance Measures
- Total annual single vehicle run-off-the-road crashes
- Total annual single vehicle run-off-the-road fatal crashes
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