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114188 1 (1981-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxtn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE , WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION JAN 11 Ms. Joan Claybrook, Administrator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Department of Transportation 114188 Dear Ms. Claybrook: On April 17, 1979, we wrote you expressing several of our concerns about the National Hiyhway Traffic Safety Administration's accident data collection efforts. One of our concerns was that the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) annual reports were consistently late. We stated: FARS inform~ation is untimely, as the annual repors coveringq 1975, 1976, and 1977's high- way fatalities were not issued until 10 to 11 months after each reporting year had ended. Such delays have caused members of the National Association of Governors' Highway Safety Rep- resentatives to question whether accident data which in part is nearly 2 years old by the time it is published is worth the cost. In your June 4, 1979, response to this concern, you stated: You are correct; reporting has not been as timely as we would like it to be. It will be better. Since the implementation in 1978 of a remote data entry system for submitting data to the FARS, submission of data has been more timely than in past years. The annual report for the 1978 data will be available in July 1979. We are now approaching our goal of submission of accidents within one month of the date of their occurrence. We believe the situation has not really improved; in fact, it is currently worse. The 1978 FARS annual report, issued in September 1979, was delayed 2 months

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