This paper compares highway crashes in Quebec and Belgium in order to understand their broad geographical distribition. The goal is to prove that highway accidents in both places follow an identical pattern of distribution, the only differentiating factor being the dimension (scale) of the territory in which accidents occur. The study uses models in which three dependent variables are explained by four independent ones, in 52 districts of Belgium and 97 regional municipalities of Quebec. Results show some similarities in spatial distribution of accident density, accidents rates and mortality rates and some differences in spatial distribution of motor vehicle ownership. In both cases, highway accidents and mortality rates are related to the density of population
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