Linking accidents in national statistics to in-depth accident data.

Author(s)
Richards, D.C. Cookson, R.E. & Cuerden, R.W.
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Abstract

This report presents the findings from a study which examined two sources of data on road traffic collisions – STATS19 (Britain’s national database of reported road traffic collisions involving personal injury) and OTS (the On-The-Spot study, a research study involving on scene collision investigations in two geographical areas) – to help provide further insight into these data sources. Each of these data sources has its own strengths and limitations: STATS19 includes the details of a large number of personal injury collisions, as recorded by the police, but provides relatively little depth, while OTS records a small number of accidents in much greater depth. This project links the individual accidents in the two databases, with the following aims: • to compare the contributory factors coded in the two databases for the same set of accidents; and • to make an assessment of how representative OTS is of both the regional and national STATS19 population of collisions. (Author/publisher)

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20101596 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Crowthorne, Berkshire, Transport Research Laboratory TRL, 2010, IV + 73 p., 9 ref.; Published Project Report ; PPR 513 - ISSN 0968-4093 / ISBN 978-1-84608-890-2

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