CARE Wet Pavement Interstate Hotspot Analysis

Wet Pavement Hotspots are determined to help law enforcement officers know where crashes are more likely to occur during and shortly after wet weather. This will enable them to prevent crashes by law enforcement presence, which tends to slow the traffic and make the drivers more attentive. It will also be useful to positions law enforcement as first responders to areas during heavy or extended rainfall that have had a history of more than expected wet pavement crashes.

This document is in three parts:

• A preliminary mileposted analysis that walks the reader through the methods used in de termining the wet pavement hotspots, • The hotspot analysis itself, and • A CARE IMPACT analysis to provide insight into how collectively the wet pavement hotspot subset compares to Interstate crashes in general.