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The effects of daylight and daylight saving time on US pedestrian fatalities and motor vehicle occupant fatalities
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the effects of daylight and daylight saving time (DST) on pedestrian
and motor vehicle occupant fatalities in the United States. Multivariate analyses
of county level data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 2-week periods
in 1998 and 1999 are used. Results show that full year daylight saving time would
reduce pedestrian fatalities by 171 per year, or by 13% of all pedestrian fatalities
in the 5:00-10.00 a.m. and in the 4:00-9:00 p.m. time periods. Motor vehicle occupant
fatalities would be reduced by 195 per year, or 3%, during the same time periods.