Some statistical aspects of road safety research. Read before the Royal Statistical Society, November 11th, 1948, the President, DR. David Heron, in the Chair.

Accident rates in different countries are compared. The trend in the accident rate in the United Kingdom, the economic cost of road accidents, and some of the available evidence of the success of various accident prevention methods used, are considered. (It should be noticed that this paper is dated 1948).