Questions/clarification via email from Loren – Regarding Item #11: The first sentence under Introduction is:
The purpose of this classification is to describe the presence of any distractions which may or may not have contributed to the crash. Since we are NOT looking for “.. the presence of any distractions which may not have contributed to the crash.” It is more correct to take out the ‘or may not’.
The purpose of this classification is to describe the presence of any distractions which may have contributed to the crash.
Response: The “may or may not” is actually intending to suggest presence of distractions without consideration of whether or not it was contributing to the crash. For example, if two vehicles collide in the intersection, a driver with a green light is distracted by their phone and is struck by another driver that runs the red light. While fault may lie with the driver that ran the light, it would still be desirable to know about the presence of the distraction.