LINKING ROAD ACCIDENT DATA TO OTHER FILES. AN INTEGRATED ROAD ACCIDENT RECORDKEEPING SYSTEM

The road accident data which the police collect are of great value to road safety research and are used extensively. These data increase greatly in value if they can be linked to other files which contain more detailed information on exposure; road, vehicle and road user characteristics; and consequences of accidents such as injury, medical treatment, and material damage. Such linked files make it possible to know what sort of vehicles are involved in accidents under what circumstances and with what consequences. This knowledge is of immense importance when tackling road safety problems. Prerequisites for such linkage are the following: -a police accident registration of a high, or at least known, representativeness for all road accidents; - preferably centralised files of the other relevant data; and -common key variable between the police accident data and the other files. In the Netherlands the police data meet the prerequisite, and there is a national travel survey for exposure, a centralised vehicle registration, a central hospital registration of in-patients, and a central registration of insurance companies of material damage. The linkage with the vehicle data has taken place; a trial linkage with the hospital data has commenced and will be completed in 1986. Linking road accident data to other files results in what we call an integrated road accident recordkeeping system in which the combined value of the linked files is greater than that of the sum of their individual values. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This report also appears in Road Safety, Proceedings of Seminar P held at the 14th PTRC Summer Annual Meeting, University of Sussex, England, 14-17 July 1986, Volume P284, pp 55-86, published by PTRC Education and Research Services, Limited, London, 1986.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • Harris, S
• Publication Date: 1986

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 55-85

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crashes; Diseases and medical conditions; Drivers; Highways; Hospitals; Injuries; Insurance; Loss and damage; Motor vehicles; Police; Recording; Traffic counts; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes; Data
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8623: Data acquisition; 8614: Database; 2755: Highway; 5916: Homogeneity; 2163: Injury; 9102: Method; 8078: Netherlands; 1522: Police; 6969: Recording; 1755: Road user; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00481503
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 086050-169-8
• Report/Paper Numbers: R-86-20, HS-040 055
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM