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The development of a European fatal accident database
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posted on 2010-11-25, 16:26 authored by Andrew MorrisAndrew Morris, Charlotte L. Brace, 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 also to support the development of further actions by stakeholders. A recent analysis conducted by the European
Transport Safety Council identified that there was no single system in place that could meet all of the needs and that there
were major gaps including in-depth crash causation information. This paper describes the process of developing a data
collection and analysis system designed to partly fill these gaps. A project team with members from seven countries was
set up to devise appropriate variable lists to collect fatal crash data, using retrospective detailed police reports (n=1300),
under the following topic levels: accident, road environment, vehicle and road user. 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. This
has major applications in the areas of active safety systems, infrastructure and road safety, as well as for tailoring behavioural
interventions.
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MORRIS, A. ... et al., 2010. The development of a European fatal accident database. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 15 (2), pp. 201-209.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
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2010Notes
This article is Closed Access. It was published in the International Journal of Crashworthiness [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13588260903102476ISSN
1358-8265;1754-2111Language
- en