INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF ROAD ACCIDENT STATISTICS

EXTRACTS FROM A REPORT BY THE FIRST AUTHOR ON ROAD DEATHS IN 16 COUNTRIES ARE PRESENTED, FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES USED. THE ORIGINAL REPORT COMMENTS ON THE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS USED IN THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES FOR VEHICLES, DEATHS, AND CASUALTIES IN ROAD ACCIDENTS, AND USES THE RESULTS OF VARIOUS INVESTIGATIONS ON INTERVALS ELAPSING BETWEEN ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS IN AN ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN COMPARABLE FIGURES FOR ROAD FATALITIES. POSSIBLE METHODS FOR RELATING NUMBERS OF ROAD FATALITIES WITH OTHER MEASURABLE QUANTITIES ARE DISCUSSED AND A FORMULA FOR PREDICTING THE NUMBERS OF ROAD FATALITIES FROM THE NUMBER OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND POPULATION IS OBTAINED. THE LIKELY ERRORS IN THE USE OF THE FORMULA ARE THEN DISCUSSED. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No 34 RR/SYMP/WD/69/2134
• Corporate Authors:

  Oecd, Paris /France

  /Symp Use of Statisticals Methods
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Smeed, R J
  • Jeffcoate, G O
• Publication Date: 1969

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 19 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Fatalities; Population; Registrations; Statistical analysis
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mileage
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221725
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 3 1972 12:00AM