Motor vehicle crashes on Kentucky's public roadways kill hundreds of people every year, and injure thousands of others. Until recently, details about the nature and severity of these injuries, particularly the non-fatal ones, were not readily available. As a result of Kentucky's Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES), that is beginning to change.

The development of CODES in Kentucky is an ongoing, collaborative effort among multiple organizations with a stake in the reduction of death, injury, and disability resulting from motor vehicle traffic crashes in Kentucky. Partner agencies include the Kentucky State Police, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Drive Smart! Kentucky, the Kentucky Transportion Center, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program. CODES is funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Data Sources and Methodology
The annual Kentucky CODES Management Report is a tool that can assist in determining traffic safety and injury prevention priority areas. A key feature of these reports is their organization into eleven distinct population risk groups:

  • Passenger car occupants
  • Light truck occupants
  • Young drivers (ages 16-24)
  • Elderly drivers (ages 65 and older)
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  • Child passengers (ages 0-8)
  • Commercial truck occupants
  • School bus occupants
  • Emergency vehicle occupants
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  • Pedestrians
  • Motorcyclists
  • Bicyclists

    • The guiding philosophy behind this organizational structure is that interventions are most effective when they are targeted to specific and appropriate risk groups. For example, the characteristics of serious injury-causing crashes involving young drivers are different in some respects from those involving elderly drivers.

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