In addition to casualty characteristics, the crash characteristics themselves (type, location) are also important for road safety research and policy making in this field. Currently, hardly any data are available about crash locations of serious road injuries. This is because location information is only available in BRON (and thus not in LBZ), which only includes part of the serious road injuries (see the question How is the number of serious road injuries determined in the Netherlands?).
Particularly for serious road injuries sustained in crashes without involvement of a motor vehicle, hardly any crash location information is available.
Through 2009, crashes that did involve motor vehicles were better recorded in BRON. Therefore, we know that up to 2010 about 60% of the registered serious road injuries (definition based on MAIS2+, see the question What is the official definition of a serious road injury?) occurred in urban areas. No reliable data are available for the years following 2009. It is expected that, in the future, the link with ambulance data will provide more insight into the locations where serious injury crashes occur [13].
