Trends in Motor Vehicle Crash Mortality in Europe, 1980-2007

Recent trends (1980–2007) in mortality from road traffic crashes in European countries, and, for comparative purposes, in the USA and Japan were reviewed. Data came from the World Health Organization database. Age-standardized rates, at all ages and at 15–24, 25–64, ⩾65 years, were computed. Joinpoint regression analyses to evaluate significant changes in trends were performed. In the European Union as a whole rates declined from 20.2 in 1987 to 13.5/100,000 in 2007 in men, and from 6.3 to 3.7/100,000 in women; European Union rates remained lower than USA, but higher than Japanese ones. In 2007, the highest male rates were in Lithuania (36.7/100,000), the Russian Federation (35.2), Ukraine (29.8), and Latvia (28.5), and the lowest ones in the Netherlands (6.2) and Sweden (6.9); the highest female rates were in the Russian Federation (11.3), Lithuania (9.7), Belarus, Latvia, and Ukraine (around 8), and the lowest ones in Switzerland (1.7), the UK, and Nordic countries (around 2). Mortality from motor vehicle crashes declined in northern and western European countries and – though to a lesser extent – in southern European countries, too. Mortality trends were also favorable in the Czech Republic and Poland since the mid 1990’s, whereas they were still upwards in Romania and the Russian Federation. No trend was observed in Hungary and Ukraine. Trends were consistent in various age groups considered. Thus, additional urgent and integrated intervention is required to prevent avoidable deaths from motor vehicle crashes, particularly in selected central and eastern European countries.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier. From a special issue: First International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering 2011
• Authors:
  • Orsi, Chiara
  • Bertuccio, Paola
  • Morandi, Anna
  • Levi, Fabio
  • Bosetti, Cristina
  • La Vecchia, Carlo
• Publication Date: 2012-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1009-1018
• Serial:
  • Safety Science
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0925-7535
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09257535

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age groups; Crash data; Crash injuries; Demographics; Fatalities; Gender
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mortality
• Geographic Terms: Eastern Europe; Europe; Japan; United States
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01365502
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2012 12:18PM