TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Problems with assessing safety of vulnerable road users based on traffic accident data
JO  - Archives of civil engineering
A1  - Olszewski, Piotr S.
A1  - Osińska, Beata
A1  - Szagała, Piotr
A1  - Skoczynski, Przemyslaw
A1  - Zielińska, Anna
SP  - 149
EP  - 168
VL  - 62
IS  - 4
N2  - The problem of poor quality of traffic accident data assembled in national databases has been addressed in European project InDeV. Vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and moped riders) are especially affected by underreporting of accidents and misreporting of injury severity. Analyses of data from the European CARE database shows differences between countries in accident number trends as well as in fatality and injury rates which are difficult to explain. A survey of InDeV project partners from 7 EU countries helped to identify differences in their countries in accident and injury definitions as well as in reporting and data checking procedures. Measures to improve the quality of accident data are proposed such as including pedestrian falls in accident statistics, precisely defining minimum injury and combining police accident records with hospital data.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1230-2945
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ace-2015-0113
ID  - ref1
ER  -