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Reflections on the real numbers of road accidents

In 1997, the real numbers of road victims were made known. During the last few years a plan to improve the road accident registration was developed. This plan was laid down in the so-called SAVOG report. This report's title contains the Dutch acronym and describes the objectives: Structural and Additional Gathering of Road Accident Data.

Within the framework of the above-mentioned developments, a project was designed which has resulted in the present report (R-98-55).

One of the objectives of this project was to set up a plan to result in an optimal set of real numbers of road accident victims. A second objective of this project was the evaluation of the estimation method that was applied for determining the real numbers of hospital in-patients, in order to be able to optimize the method. A third and final objective of this project consisted of the formulation of procedures for the period up to the realisation of SAVOG, in order that the activities that take place in the framework of the realisation of SAVOG do not influence the quality of the real numbers.

SWOV Research Activities 11 - March 1999

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