The development of a European fatal accident database
Andrew Morris
Charlotte L. Brace
Steven Reed
Helen Fagerlind
Karolina Bjorkman
Michael Jaensch
Dietmar Otte
Gilles Vallet
Lindsay Cant
Gabriele Giustiniani
Kalle Parkkari
Ernst Verschragen
Boudewijn Hoogvelt
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https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/The_development_of_a_European_fatal_accident_database/9339026
A 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. 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 indepth
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 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. 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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European Fatal Crash Database
Crash causation
Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified