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Published: (SWOV) | Goldenbeld, Ch.; Stelling, A.; Kint, S.T. van der

This fact sheet considers road safety in the Netherlands from an international perspective. The number of serious road injuries is hard to compare to numbers in other countries, so we almost exclusively focus on the number of road deaths. For the Netherlands, we use the actual number of road deaths provided by Statistics Netherlands; i.e. the numbers adjusted for underregistration.

Risky road user behaviour is behaviour that adversely affects road safety, such as driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or medicines, speeding, inappropriate speed, distracted or fatigued driving, red light negation, and failure to use or misuse means of protection (motorcycle or moped helmet, seatbelt).

In the Netherlands, a sustainable road safety approach, in which measures in the fields of Engineering, Education and Enforcement (3Es) are complementary, has been used for decades. Enforcement reduces high-risk road user behaviour and is therefore an important component of this safe system approach.

A progressive penalty system encompasses heavier or more far-reaching sanctions being imposed as one commits more offences. A progressive penalty system is often called a progressive fines system if it involves increasingly higher financial penalties (fines), but (other) recidivism schemes such as demerit points systems can also be seen as a progressive penalty systems.

Published: | Sha, H.; Singh, M.K.; Haouari, R.; Papazikou, E.; Quddus, M.; Quigley, C.; Chaudhry, A.; Thomas, P.; Weijermars, W.; Andrew Morris, A.
Published: | Goldenbeld, C.; Stelling, A.; Van der Kint, S.
Published: (European Road Safety Observatory, European Commission) | Stelling, A.; Boets, S.
Published: | Van den Berghe, W.; Silverans, P.; Vanhove, S.; Boets, S.; Aarts, L.; Bijleveld, F.; Folla, K.; Yannis, G.
Published: (European Road Safety Observatory, European Commission) | Goede, M. de; Stelling, A.