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Using state highway crash databases

Number 2021
Subject Transportation
Source Paul Overberg
State USA Today
Year 2004
Publication Date CAR_Conference_2004_Cincinnati_OH
Summary It’s probably not worth trying to cover every injury crash as spot news. Even if your coverage area includes just 300,000 people, that would mean writing about more than 500 injured people each week! But it suggests that you might want to try to do more enterprise. One resource is your state’s crash database. Overberg gives some suggestions on how to do some enterprise work using crash data.
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