Translation into English of terms and definitions used in the road accident statistics of The Netherlands as reported by the police to the Department for Statistics and Data Management of The Netherlands Transport Research Centre AVV of the Ministry ...

This report is an update of the SWOV publication R-77-31 of the same name, in 1977. Since then, quite a few things have changed. This report's purpose is to assist road researchers over the whole world to understand what the Dutch police record on the report form and what it means in English. It is also meant to facilitate reading Dutch accident tables in publications of, for example, Statistics Netherlands. As an addition to the old report an alphabetical list of the terms is used and, as last chapter, the text of a hand-out to foreign visitors entitled "The Registration of Road Accidents in the Netherlands". This gives an indication of the incompleteness and faulty representativity of the reporting by the police. It also provides a translation of the Dutch Accident Report Form. Part of this chapter is an English translation of the Road Accident Form as used by the police.