This report is one of a series of 'Annual Road Safety Reports'. These are annual SWOV publications that deal with the size and nature of road safety, together with its developments. In the report, the developments in the numbers of accidents and victims during the years up to 1999 are analysed. Although the situations and developments in the Netherlands take priority, brief comparisons are made with developments in other countries. Trends, backgrounds, and explanations of the data are presented. Prognoses for the year 2010, the year of the Dutch national target, are made, based on this data. Developments in dangerous traffic behaviour (speeding, drink-driving, and not wearing of seat belts) are dealt with separately. So are the developments of a number of specific high-risk groups: moped riders, low-speed moped riders (In Dutch: "snorfietsers"), lorries, older car drivers, and cyclists.
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