Underreporting of Road Traffic Casualties
This report is a follow-up of the 1994 IRTAD Special Report on “Underreporting of road traffic accidents reported by the police at the international level”. The report highlights the need to assess the real magnitude of the road safety issues, which requires having a better understanding of the real volumes of road traffic casualties. Based on a questionnaire sent to all IRTAD members, this report reviews the known causes of underreporting and the experience of the 22 responding countries to assess the magnitude of underreporting and suggests a method to estimate the rate of underreporting. Finally it provides a set of recommendations to improve the data reporting mechanism. This paper is intended to create a larger awareness of underreporting, and to generate a greater understanding of the opportunities available to gain more insight into the actual volumes involved.
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Corporate Authors:
Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management
P.O. Box 1031
Rotterdam, Netherlands 3000 BAOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2, rue André Pascal
Paris, France 75775 Paris Cedex 16 2 rue Andre Pascal
Paris Cedex 16, France F-75775 -
Authors:
- Derriks, Harry M
- Mak, Peter M
- Publication Date: 2007-6
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 39p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Casualties; Crash data; Crash reports; Highway safety; Traffic crash victims; Traffic crashes
- Uncontrolled Terms: Underreporting
- Geographic Terms: Europe
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01142911
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 30 2009 9:31AM