In this report, a selection has been made of the data which can be considered indicative of the size and severity of road safety in the Netherlands at this moment in time and for the developments of this problem during approximately the last ten years. In choosing the subjects and the periods, the availability of comparable data for domestic, industrial, and sport accidents has been taken into account. The following have been selected to show the size of road safety: (1) the absolute numbers of victims, subdivided by severity (deaths, seriously injured, and slightly injured); (2) the mortality: deaths per 100,000 population; (3) the injury rates per kilometre or per hour; (4) the number of Years of Life Lost (YLL); and (5) the costs of injuries. For the comparison between member countries of the European Union (EU) prctically all indicators were available. For the comparison with other accidents outside traffic, data was available for the absolute numbers of deaths, the mortality, and the Years of Life Lost. The 1994-1996 period was chosen to describe the present situation in the Netherlands. For some of the comparisons these three years were totalised. For example, this was done for the calculation of the injury rate per occupant kilometre and per hour travelled. (A) (The title of the Dutch version of this report is: 'Recente kerncijfers verkeersonveiligheid: Achtergronddocument voor de Fourth World Conference `Injury prevention and control', Amsterdam, mei 1998', see C 10989).
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