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A European fatal crash database
conference contribution
posted on 2009-04-08, 10:41 authored by Andrew MorrisAndrew Morris, Steven ReedSteven Reed, Helen Fagerlind, Karolina Bjorkman, Michael Jaensch, Dietmar Otte, Gilles Vallet, Lindsay Cant, Gabriele Giustiniani, Kalle Parkkari, Ernst Verschragen, Boudewijn HoogveltA lack of representative European accident data to aid the development of safety policy, regulation and
technological advancement is a major obstacle in the European Union. Data are needed to assess the
performance of road and vehicle safety and is also needed to support the development of further actions by
stakeholders. This short-paper describes the process of developing a data collection and analysis system
designed to partly fill these gaps. A project team with members from 7 countries was set up to devise
appropriate variable lists to collect fatal crash data under the following topic levels: accident, road
environment, vehicle, and road user, using retrospective detailed police reports (n=1,300). The typical level
of detail recorded was a minimum of 150 variables for each accident. The project will enable
multidisciplinary information on the circumstances of fatal crashes to be interpreted to provide information
on a range of causal factors and events surrounding the collisions.
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MORRIS, A. ... et al, 2008. A European fatal crash database. IN: Proceedings of Expert Symposium on Accident Research (ESAR) 3rd International Conference - 5-6th September 2008, Hannover, GermanyPublication date
2008Notes
This is a conference paper. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.esar-hannover.de/Language
- en