Abstract
56% of traffic participants in EU get killed in cars, followed by 18% on two wheel vehicles and 15% die as pedestrians. Young and older people are much more likely to be injured or killed as car drivers when taking kilometres driven and the deviation of the population into consideration. In general the main cause of accidents is inattention (about one third). In detail accident causes can be attributed specifically to age groups. Driver education programmes for each age group and the driving test shall be optimised in order to fit optimal to the specific accident causes. (Author/publisher)