Citation

Hollo P, Berta T. Proc. Road Saf. Four Continents Conf. 2010; 15: 62-70.

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(Copyright © 2010, Conference Sponsor)

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Abstract

The first part of the presentation gives a detailed overview of the Hungarian road safety situation. Not only the national data and time series will be analyzed, but international comparisons will be made, too; and what is more, some road safety performance indicators will be applied in order to reveal the most important problems and trends. After a long deteriorating trend in the number of personal injury accidents and their victims, in 2008 a real "breakthrough" took place in Hungary: for the first time in the latest history of national road traffic, the number of road accident fatalities was below 1000. It is very instructive to highlight the "package" of consistent and co-ordinated road safety measures introduced in 2008 to allow the drawing of conclusions on their effect on road safety situation. The second part of the presentation will report on the main goal, areas and some details of the latest 3-year road safety action program.