Guaranteeing road safety is a key factor in ensuring that personal mobility functions smoothly. Despite all the efforts of those responsible (such as the Accident Commission), it is possible that the number and severity of accidents cannot be reduced, because there is no way of identifying the causes underlying the apparently unstructured set of accident statistics. The city of Münster was faced with a situation precisely like this. They therefore requested the assistance of the German Insurers Accident Research (UDV) in thoroughly investigating the various interrelationships and the background that were contributing to the accident statistics that been constantly poor over a period of many years. The UDV responded by carrying out a pilot project in Münster in order to develop an accident analysis procedure that could be applied to other local authorities. (Author/publisher)
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