The prevention of road accidents was only recently enclosed among the priorities of the Italian National Health Program recognising in the life style and prevalent cultural orientation the origin of this phenomena that causes, according to the health statistic, 8,000 fatalities, 20,000 invalids and 170,000 injuries every year. This huge amount of tragedies (higher by one third in comparison with official police sources), should be even more severe taking into consideration distortions that occur during the data collection and transmission, hindering the real acknowledgement of the quantitative data. Besides that, there is a problem of the analysis of the qualitative data that hardly offers a review of causes and risk factors. The data distortion, closely related to the prevention of accidents, influences negatively the possibility of the prevention to tackle the specific risks and definitely to improve the road safety in a systematic and coherent way. This paper presents an integrated pilot project in the city of Caserta, that puts together all principal actors involved in the process of the collection of data and the prevention of road safety in order to stabilise a common referential schema based on synergies and collaboration. For the covering abstract see ITRD E123193.
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