Urban Sprawl as a Risk Factor in Motor Vehicle Occupant and Pedestrian Fatalities
Reid Ewing, PhD,
Richard A. Schieber, MD, MPH and
Charles V. Zegeer, MS
Reid Ewing is with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; Richard A. Schieber is with the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga; and Charles V. Zegeer is with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill.

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FIGURE 1— Logarithm of all-mode traffic fatality rate by logarithm of sprawl index: 448 counties, United States, 2000.
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