This statistical report on road accidents in 2002 in the ECMT Member countries has been drawn up by the ECMT Secretariat. Detailed questionnaires, used as a basis for this report, were sent out to those countries. Some additional data has been included for Associate and Observer countries using a variety of sources. At 31 July 2004, the following 33 countries had sent replies to the 2002 data questionnaire: Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United-Kingdom. For countries which did not reply, data have been estimated from the publication “Trends in the Transport Sector”, or when this was not possible, data from the previous year has been used. ECMT countries have a very varied range of geographical and socio economic factors (climatic and geographic conditions, composition of the road vehicle population, traffic engineering, presence of international and tourist traffic, density and quality of road system, quality of land use planning, population density, road user attitudes and behaviour, standard of living, etc.) and general comparisons on road safety must be treated with care. The tables presented are, however, sufficiently explicit for each country to be able to see how it stands in relation to other countries and seek the reasons why. The comments on each table are intentionally short. Overall comparisons of road risk levels have most validity for countries with similar vehicle ownership ratios, i.e. number of motor vehicles per 1 000 population. However, where car ownership ratios differ, the number of fatalities (death within 30 days) per million vehicles is an inadequate criterion for comparison. Furthermore, while the volume of traffic (number of vehicle/kms) is a better indicator of the risk involved, the data are either not available or insufficiently reliable in many countries. For these reasons, the most widely available of the criteria for comparison is the number of fatalities (death within 30 days) per million population. This CD is divided into two parts. The first part includes two PDF files (one in French and one in English) with the whole statistical report, i.e. a brief statistical analysis, statistical tables and individual country graphs. All statistical tables are available separately on the second part of this CD, in both PDF (Acrobat Reader) and Excel files. (Author/publisher)
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