This paper entails an investigation into the relationship of highway geometric design to traffic accidents and the development of models for predicting the accident potential on a particular highway segment. The geometric design features present the highway characteristics that can provide an effective means for determining the accident '"proneness" of a given roadway. This investigation does not consider the driver element or climatic conditions associated with the occurrence of accidents. Both of these elements probably are a significant feature in the cause of accidents; thus, the accident variability explanation due to geometric design may be limited.
