Next to the positive effect on economics, transport also has a detrimental effect on the environment and society. Big damage is caused by the road transport accidents where people become killed or injured, vehicles and transport constructions broken, and environment polluted by the spill of fuel, oil, transported materials, etc. Each year the global figures of the people killed in automobile traffic accidents reach 700 000 next to the 15 - 20 millions of the injured ones. In other words, more than 1100 of people are killed in the world every day and more than 40 000 become injured. Rapid growth of auto mobilisation causes an increasing number of problems in the efforts to ensure safe traffic in Lithuanian roads and streets. Ensuring safe traffic is one of the most urgent traffic problems. The consideration of the experience of foreign countries in the same area and the analysis of accidents in Lithuania in 1982 - 2004 indicating the types of automobile accidents, their causes and circumstances, distribution of the numbers of the killed and the injured among the traffic participants, enabled to establish key causes of high accident rate in Lithuania and they are presented in the paper (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E217780.
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