The RCVIS Annual Report 2010 reviews the main road crash trends in Cambodia compared to previous years. Based on the data from traffic police and health facilities, in 2010, 18,287 road crash casualties were reported. Among them 1,816 were fatalities (an average of 5 fatalities per day). Over the last 6 years, the number of fatalities has doubled. A the same time, the population has increased by 8% and the number of registered motorized vehicles has risen by 187%. There were 32% increases in the fatality rate among 100,000 inhabitants since 2006 (9.6 to 12.7). On the other hand decreases in the fatality rate per 10,000 registered vehicles were also observed since 2006 (18.1 to 11.0). These decreases can be attributed to the huge increase in motorization. In the comparison of fatality rates per 10,000 registered vehicles with Lao PDR and Vietnam, Cambodia has the highest rate. Based on the available figure in RCVIS (without under-reporting estimation), the annual economic cost of road crashes in 2010 was equal to 279 million USD an increase of 13% compared to the cost in 2009. In this 2010 annual report, under-reporting was also estimated in the section X. Data from RCVIS was used in a capture recapture method to estimate the overall pictures of road traffic casualties. Based on capture-recapture estimation, in 2010, there were estimated 114,403 road crash casualties, which was 0.8% of the Cambodian population. Among them, 2,348 were fatalities and 19,049 were serious injuries. This also meant that around 20% of road crash fatalities and 85% of injuries were not reported to RCVIS. (Author/publisher)
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