Knowledge base
- Developments
- Sustainable Safety
- Road safety policy
- Modes of transport
- High-risk groups
- High-risk behaviour
- Measures
- Data sources
- Ownership and use of commercial vehicles (CBS)
- Population of the municipalities in the Netherlands (CBS)
- Causes of Death (CBS)
- Use of protection devices
- International Road Traffic and Accident Database IRTAD
- IIS (Injury Surveillance System)
- National Medical Registration (LMR)
- National Road Database (NRD)
- Injuries and Physical Activities in the Netherlands (OBiN)
- National Travel Survey (NTS)
- Car Panel PAP (CBS)
- Periodic Regional Road Safety Survey (PRRSS)
- Survey of drinking and driving in the Netherlands
- Speed measuring on motorways
- Road Statistics (CBS)
- Motor Vehicle Statistics (CBS)
- Passenger Traffic Statistics (CBS)
- Road crash registration (BRON)
- Traffic Offences
Registration rate of accidents and victims
Research of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (1994) shows the following:
a) in all Western countries, it is the police that is responsible for registering road accidents;
b) a central institute gathers and processes the data in a database.
The registration is nearly always limited to injury accidents.
|
type of victim |
registration rate |
|
Death |
~ 100% |
|
In-patient |
50-90% |
|
Slightly injured |
20-80% |
Registration rate IRTAD-countries
Furthermore, in spite of the aim to harmonise, the differences in definitions and procedures are so great that the registration rates of the countries can hardly be compared.
Because of the large under-registration of the ‘light’ modes of transport, the average registration level in a country is partly determined by the amount of bicycle and pedestrian traffic in that country. It is also the case that accidents involving only one (moving) vehicle are registered much less often.