Within the EU H2020 project SafetyCube, in which SWOV is one of the partners, guidelines are being developed for the determination of the number of serious road injuries. On May 24th, SafetyCube organized a workshop at SWOV in The Hague to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences between experts from different countries.
At the workshop, SafetyCube presented their preliminary guidelines and it was discussed how these guidelines could be further improved to meet all user needs. About 30 participants from 13 countries and organizations like ETSC and FEVR attended the workshop and provided feedback on the preliminary guidelines.
The workshop started with a welcome from Peter van der Knaap, managing director of SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, an introduction to the SafetyCube project by project coordinator Pete Thomas, a welcome from Maria Teresa Sanz-Villegas from the EC and an introduction to the guidelines.
Before discussing the preliminary guidelines into more detail, current and planned practices around Europe were discussed as well as how to improve access to hospital data. In the afternoon SafetyCube's detailed guidelines for each of the three ways described by the EC to estimate the number of serious road injuries, were presented and discussed: 1) applying correction factors to police data, 2) use of hospital data, and 3) linking police data and hospital data. Finally, preliminary conclusions regarding the comparability of the different methods were presented and discussed.
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