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• Sustainable Safety
  vision, implementation...
• Road safety developments
  mobility, risk, casualties...
• Road safety policy
  targets, costs, benefits...
• Road safety costs
  crash costs, road deaths...
  
• Modes of transport
  pedestrians, bicyclist, cars...
• High-risk behaviour
  alcohol, drugs, telephone, fatigue...
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  children, youngsters, elderly...
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Archive Press releases

• New method gives more accurate figures on seriously injured casualties - 17 November 2009

• Introduction of Different Payment for Mobility will have positive road safety effect - 16 November 2009

• 10 years of Sustainable Safety: considerable decrease in fatality rate and number of traffic fatalities - 12 November 2009

• 30 km/h roads much safer than 50 km/h roads - 29 April 2009
• Fred Wegman professor of Road Safety at Delft University of Technology - 25 February 2009
• SUNflowerNext: A proposal to develop a composite road safety index for international comparisons - 16 December 2008
• Possible stagnation of road safety improvement - 3 December 2008
• Time series analysis in road safety research - 4 November 2008
• Set of measures will reduce number of blind spot crashes considerably - 16 October 2008
• Traffic much safer for children younger than fourteen - 29 August 2008
• SWOV study into the feasibility of fewer than 500 road deaths in 2020 - 24 April 2008
• Fewer cyclists injured in crashes with motor vehicles - 30 January 2008
• Road users quite good at compensating for unexpected behaviour - 3 January 2008
• In-car electronics and adjustments to intersection design improve the safety of the older driver - 4 December 2007
• Bicycle path rather than pavement for Segway - 5 October 2007
• 55 years of road safety analyzed: the peak conquered - 26 April 2007
• Sharpening 2020 road safety targets is possible - 26 April 2007
• Education projects: structural evaluation advisable - 26 April 2007
• Improved credibility of speed limits possible - 26 April 2007
• Recognizability of roads can be improved -
26 April 2007
• Plea for a debate on a workable road safety criterion: Hospital admission does not always indicate severe injury - 26 April 2007
• Number of road deaths stable - 23 April 2007
  
• European study of drugs and medicines in traffic begun - 15 January 2007
• Dutch vision of successful road safety policy, Sustainable Safety, now internationally available - 3 November 2006
• Targets for road deaths 2010 and 2020 can be lowered - 30 August 2006

• SUNflower+6: Comparative study of the development of road safety in nine European countries now available - 27 June 2006
• Comparative European study: Positive judgement about road safety in the Netherlands - 24 april 2006
• Advancing Sustainable Safety: SWOV argues for more policy renewal and more quality care in road traffic - 2 November 2005
• Daytime running lights save 45 road deaths a year - 5 July 2005
• SWOV: roundabout without bicycle priority is safer for cyclists - 2 Februari 2005
• Dutch drivers want more road safety measures - 10 December 2003
• Information about safe use of Advanced Cruise Control in the car is necessary - 12 November 2003