At present, there are some 50,000 fatally injured road users each year throughout the 25 EU Member States. A core element of the EC road safety strategy includes a reduction of fatalities by 50% by the year 2010. Central to this strategy is the requirement for good quality in-depth accident data. Such data are seen as a fundamental pre-requisite for the formulation and monitoring of road safety policy in the EU. This document details the progress of the task of setting up a fatal accident data collection routine in the seven EU partner countries. The report describes the outcome from the pilot phase of the project to give an up to date explanation of any changes from the original scope of the work as previously described in D5.1. (Author/publisher)
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