Recovering Hidden Wildlife--Vehicle Collisions from Existing Crash Data: A Cross-State Framework for Detection, Prevalence Estimation, and Under-Reporting Audits

Rasheed Bello, Judith Mwakalonge, Vaighese Vaidyan +4

Wildlife--vehicle collisions (WVCs) impose a large toll on U.S. highways, yet state crash databases often fail to record animal involvement, leaving agencies uncertain of the true…