How does the number of serious road injuries in the Netherlands compare to that in other countries?

Casualties are reported in many different ways in different countries. Definitions and report rates vary, which makes international comparison difficult [25]. For years, the European Commission has been striving for a harmonised definition, based on road crash casualties with MAIS3+ injuries. Quite a number of countries encounter problems in collecting the necessary data (police and hospital data) and performing the required data editing to determine the number of serious road injuries (MAIS3+). In 2014, the European Commission did give a first-time estimate of the number of serious road injuries in Europe: 135,000 [26]; for 2019, this estimate was 120,000 [27].