Since injured pedestrians due to falling contributes to high costs for society, therefore the attribute requirements on a road surface is of great importance for safety. The requirements shall be appropriate for all who are on the surface, this applies to both vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. This report summarises recent accident studies and the prevailing rules regarding the construction of spaces for pedestrians. In addition to these compilations an analysis is done of how common it is that people fall due to, for example, uneven surfaces, kerb-stones or stumble. In 38 percent of the reported accidents that occurred between 2008 and 2015 (82,559), the victims said that the accident happened on a footpath/pavement. To give a good picture of how many accidents that may occur due to surface and paving was 4,443 accidents filtered out, and all the descriptions were read and divided into 12 various categories. The most common reason to a person being injured, according to themselves, was unevenness, holes and pits, level differences or related to the stone/tile surface. The social-economic cost for these 4,443 accidents was in average 845 thousand SEK. The conclusions drawn from this material was that a reduction of the number of level changes in urban environment, such as kerb-stones at pedestrian crossings, could reduce the number of pedestrian falls. Demands of friction levels on different stone/tile pavements might also be revised to prevent accidents. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting