Arkansas 2007 Five Percent Report
This report is in response to the Federal requirement that each state describe at least 5 percent of its locations currently exhibiting the most severe highway safety needs, in accordance with Sections 148(c)(1)(D) and 148(g)(3)(A), of Title 23, United States Code. Each state's report is to include potential remedies to the hazardous locations identified; estimated costs of the remedies; and impediments to implementation of the remedies other than costs. The reports included on this web site represent a variety of methods utilized and various degrees of road coverage. Therefore, this report cannot be compared with the other reports included on this Web site.
Protection from Discovery and Admission into Evidence—Under 23 U.S.C. 148(g)(4) information collected or compiled for any purpose directly relating to this report shall not be subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in a Federal or State court proceeding or considered for other purposes in any action for damages arising from any occurrence at a location identified or addressed in the reports. |
Additional information, including the specific legislative requirements, can be found in the guidance provided by the Federal Highway Administration,
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/fiveguidance.htm.
5 Percent Program Report
Introduction
As part of 23 U.S.C. Section 148, a new Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) was created as a core funding program. As a condition of obligating HSIP funds, Section 148 requires states to prepare an annual report that describes not less than 5 percent of public road locations exhibiting the most severe safety needs. This report is being submitted to fulfill these requirements.
As stipulated in the program requirements, the State's methodology used to identify locations on the 5 Percent Program Report focuses on fatal and serious injury crashes. During the period of 2003 to 2005, there were 8,941 fatal and serious injury crashes on the State road system.
Table 3 previously showed the number of fatal and serious injury crashes and crash rates for each road system. The results showed that the Interstate System had the lowest fatal and serious injury crash rate while U.S. Highways and State Highway Systems had the highest fatal and serious injury crash rates. However, all three of these road systems (Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways and State Highways) were used to identify high KA crash rate locations for the 5 Percent Report.
Though the guidelines suggested that all public roads be included in this report, the lack of a referencing system for crashes on city streets and county roads precluded crash queries from being conducted on these road systems to identify high crash rate locations. New technology such as the use of GPS modems to identify the location of a crash on all road systems should enhance the crash location process and possibly enable city streets and county roads to be considered in future 5 Percent Program Reports if a high crash rate location is identified. The AHTD will continue to be an active member of the State's TRCC to advance improvements in the traffic records program, especially as it relates to identifying crash locations. The AHTD will continue to provide assistance to the local governments on transportation needs, including safety, through the Local Technical Assistance Program and the State Aid Division.
Methodology
In order to identify locations for the 5 Percent Program Report with a high incident of fatal and serious injury crashes, a process was developed as discussed below.
A Microsoft Access query was made for all fatal and serious injury crashes on Interstate, U.S. and State Highway Road Systems.
A Crash Analysis Program identified locations with a high rate of fatal and serious injury crashes on the three road systems. The criteria used to identify these locations were five-mile segments or less with 15 or more fatal and serious injury crashes within the three-year period of 2003 to 2005.
The Crash Analysis Program identified 47 locations that met the above stated criteria. Five locations were removed from the list because they were under construction or have recently been improved.
Fatal and serious injury crash rates were calculated for the remaining 42 locations. Eight (8) locations were removed from the list because the KA crash rate was below the statewide KA crash rate of 0.10 KA crashes per MVM.
The final list resulted in 34 locations for the 5 Percent Report. The list was sorted by fatal and serious injury crash rate (highest to lowest) and shown on Table 7. Of the 34 locations, 15 of the locations have programmed projects.
Of the 34 locations, three locations (shown below) were identified as locations to include in the 5 Percent Program Report based on the highest KA crash rates. All three of these high KA crash rate locations are currently programmed for improvements.
- Highway 16, Section 13, Log Miles 6.58-11.26, White County (Job 050188)
- Highway 412, Section 3, Log Miles 6.17-10.99, Madison County (Job 009951)
- Highway 270, Section 5, Log Miles 10.87-15.85, Garland County (Job 061059)
Job 050188, Pangburn-Searcy, will construct passing lanes on Highway 16 for 2.4 miles. Job 009951, Hindsville-Huntsville Bypass will widen Highway 412 to 4 lanes for 4.92 miles. Job 061059, Hot Springs-West is programmed to install passing lanes on Highway 270 for 4.6 miles using Safety funds. More information for these projects is provided in Table 8.
The one location that was included in last year's 5 Percent Report is again included in this year's Report. Job 070280, El Dorado-Hwy. 335, will widen Highway 167 to 5 lanes for 5.2 miles. No date of construction has been scheduled for this project.
Table 7
5 Percent Program
List of KA Crash Rate Locations
| Number | District | County | Route | Section | Begin Log Mile |
End Log Mile | Length | 2003-2005 Number of KA Crashes |
3 Year Avg. Number KA Crashes |
ADT | KA Crash Rate* |
PROJECT | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 05 | WHITE | 16 | 13 | 6.58 | 11.26 | 4.68 | 15 | 5 | 5130 | 0.57 | 050188 | Programmed |
| 2 | 09 | MADISON | 412 | 03 | 6.17 | 10.99 | 4.82 | 18 | 6 | 6083 | 0.56 | 009951 | Programmed |
| 3 | 06 | GARLAND | 270 | 05 | 10.87 | 15.85 | 4.98 | 25 | 8.33 | 9467 | 0.48 | 061059 | Programmed |
| 4 | 09 | BAXTER | 62 | 11 | 0.20 | 5.02 | 4.82 | 23 | 7.66 | 9167 | 0.47 | ||
| 5 | 08 | FAULKNER | 286 | 02 | 0.00 | 4.39 | 4.39 | 15 | 5 | 6600 | 0.47 | ||
| 6 | 06 | GARLAND | 227 | 01 | 0.10 | 4.80 | 4.70 | 16 | 5.33 | 7200 | 0.43 | 060978 | Programmed |
| 7 | 06 | LONOKE | 5 | 12 | 5.22 | 8.72 | 3.50 | 16 | 5.33 | 9860 | 0.42 | 060906 | Programmed |
| 8 | 06 | GARLAND | 70 | 09 | 10.18 | 15.07 | 4.89 | 15 | 5 | 7858 | 0.36 | 60109 | Programmed |
| 9 | 06 | LONOKE | 5 | 12 | 0.14 | 4.69 | 4.55 | 20 | 6.66 | 11580 | 0.35 | 060906 | Programmed |
| 10 | 09 | BAXTER | 5 | 19 | 0.07 | 4.98 | 4.28 | 15 | 5 | 10117 | 0.32 | ||
| 11 | 06 | GARLAND | 7 | 09 | 5.27 | 10.26 | 4.99 | 41 | 13.66 | 25783 | 0.29 | ||
| 12 | 08 | FAULKNER | 65 | 09B | 0.00 | 3.84 | 3.84 | 25 | 8.33 | 21386 | 0.28 | 080273 | Programmed |
| 13 | 06 | GARLAND | 70 | 08 | 16.38 | 19.19 | 2.81 | 19 | 6.33 | 22667 | 0.27 | ||
| 14 | 03 | LITTLE RIVER | 71 | 04 | 0.06 | 4.60 | 4.54 | 15 | 5 | 11633 | 0.26 | ||
| 15 | 08 | FAULKNER | 64 | 09 | 5.09 | 10.06 | 4.97 | 20 | 6.66 | 14317 | 0.26 | ||
| 16 | 08 | FAULKNER | 64 | 09 | 0.07 | 5.03 | 4.96 | 32 | 10.66 | 23387 | 0.25 | 080219 | Programmed |
| 17 | 06 | GARLAND | 7 | 09 | 0.02 | 4.40 | 4.38 | 16 | 5.33 | 14067 | 0.24 | 60432 | Programmed |
| 18 | 08 | VAN BUREN | 65 | 08 | 0.25 | 4.96 | 4.71 | 16 | 5.33 | 14592 | 0.21 | 080283 | Programmed |
| 19 | 08 | FAULKNER | 65 | 09 | 7.58 | 11.95 | 4.37 | 17 | 5.66 | 18700 | 0.19 | ||
| 20 | 06 | HOT SPRING | 270 | 07 | 6.52 | 10.88 | 4.36 | 17 | 5.66 | 19200 | 0.19 | ||
| 21 | 06 | GARLAND | 70 | 09 | 0.00 | 4.67 | 4.67 | 15 | 5 | 16289 | 0.18 | ||
| 22 | 01 | CRITTENDEN | 40 | 52 | 281.83 | 284.63 | 2.80 | 25 | 8.33 | 46067 | 0.18 | ||
| 23 | 08 | FAULKNER | 65 | 09 | 12.64 | 17.51 | 4.87 | 20 | 6.66 | 21300 | 0.18 | ||
| 24 | 06 | PULASKI | 70 | 12 | 1.65 | 5.76 | 4.11 | 24 | 8 | 30976 | 0.17 | ||
| 25 | 06 | HOT SPRING | 30 | 21 | 86.70 | 91.12 | 4.42 | 18 | 6 | 25133 | 0.15 | 061186 | Programmed |
| 26 | 06 | GARLAND | 270 | 05 | 16.55 | 20.97 | 4.42 | 17 | 5.66 | 25150 | 0.14 | ||
| 27 | 05 | WHITE | 67 | 13 | 0.00 | 4.94 | 4.94 | 16 | 5.33 | 21400 | 0.14 | ||
| 28 | 06 | PULASKI | 10 | 08 | 10.84 | 15.13 | 4.29 | 16 | 5.33 | 25287 | 0.13 | 061194 | Programmed |
| 29 | 09 | BENTON | 540 | 05 | 79.85 | 84.53 | 4.68 | 34 | 11.33 | 52856 | 0.13 | ||
| 30 | 01 | CRITTENDEN | 40 | 52 | 276.60 | 281.10 | 4.50 | 28 | 9.33 | 46520 | 0.12 | 110493 | Programmed |
| 31 | 06 | HOT SPRING | 30 | 21 | 92.10 | 96.86 | 4.76 | 16 | 5.33 | 26700 | 0.11 | ||
| 32 | 01 | CRITTENDEN | 55 | 11 | 0.04 | 4.65 | 4.61 | 24 | 8 | 43375 | 0.11 | ||
| 33 | 04 | SEBASTIAN | 540 | 01 | 2.59 | 7.34 | 4.75 | 24 | 8 | 43411 | 0.11 | 040468 | Programmed |
| 34 | 08 | FAULKNER | 40 | 32 | 125.51 | 130.20 | 4.69 | 26 | 8.66 | 49811 | 0.10 |
Criteria:
KA Crashes in 5-Mile Segments with Minimum of 15 Crashes from the years 2003 - 2005
* Statewide KA crash rate is 0.10 KA crashes per mvm
Table 8
Highway Segments Exhibiting the Most
Severe Safety Needs for 5 Percent Report
FY 2007
| Job Number |
County | Termini | Length (miles) |
Potential Improvement * |
Estimated Costs (M) * |
Impediments (other than costs) * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 050188 | White | Pangburn-Searcy Passing Lanes (Hwy. 16) | 2.40 | Construct passing lanes | 4.0 | None |
| 009951 | Madison | Hindsville-Huntsville Bypass (Hwy. 412) |
4.92 | Widen to 4 lanes | 12.9 | Includes bridges w/low sufficiency ratings |
| 061059 | Garland | Hot Springs-West Passing Lanes (Hwy. 270) | 4.60 | Construct passing lanes | 8.3 | None |
| 070280 [1] | Union | El Dorado-Hwy. 335 (Hwy. 167) | 4.70 | Widen to 5 lanes | $25.0 | None |
*These are preliminary comments until further studies are conducted. [1] Included in FY 2006 5 Percent Report
