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Show ""'"Accident rates down despite heavy traffic d'ffcult to regulal campus. Unless som ": accidents will be ' e'fe prob,em in the nexlM results," he said. Mr. Shepherd believes the next major enforcement problem at the University is likely to be bicycles. "They relieve parking problems and prevent air pollution, but they are SS5 sharing data with the other de oartmentsand agencies on campus Tbeen able to multiply good On a typical school day, there are some 82,000 round trips made to the University campus by automobile, auto-mobile, and an additional 300,000 cars per year visit the University for athletic and other events. Despite tremendous increases in both population and traffic during the past several years, accident and personal injury rates at the Univer- and prevent accidents while act-uaNy act-uaNy improving the flow of traffic simply by more analytical manager ment of police sources W,th h. data in hand, the University applied for a Federal grant which was awarded in March, 1970 through the Safe Streets Act of Highway Safety. The department began investigating investigat-ing every accident that took place on campus-'reportable" or "non-. "non-. ; omnomic terms. sity are decisively down. The decrease reflects the impact of a new approach to accident prevention pre-vention that University Public Safety Director Wayne Shepherd calls "Selective Law Enforcement." Officer Shepherd has explored the campus, investigating accidents, analyzing cause and effect and suggesting sug-gesting possible solutions. He found it feasible to safeguard lives reportable" in economic terms. When accident patterns seemed to recur more frequently at certain intersections, the officers studied probable causes and searched for effective solutions. According to Officer Shepherd, the study revealed a variety of causes for accidents, such as emotional emo-tional factors (frustration or competitive com-petitive driving, etc.), erroneous perceptions, and faulty highway engineering. "There isn't always a single cause; accidents often result re-sult from a combination of these factors," he said. Mr. Shepherd and his department depart-ment work closely with the University Univer-sity traffic engineers, landscape architects and parking officials. "We only have a certain number of officers and we have a very - I |