Samenvatting
The first part of the study gives an analysis of pedestrian accidents in several European countries as a public health problem. The second part is based on a special analysis of pedestrian accidents in Norway in 1972. The third part presents the result from recent Norwegian studies of observed behaviour at zebra crossing. Various ways of marking pedestrian crossing were examined, but the installation of more warning signs, speed limit signs, or advisory speed signs, had only a minor effect on the drivers' behaviour.