posted on 2018-03-15, 11:05authored bySteven ReedSteven Reed, Laurie BrownLaurie Brown, Wendy Weijermars, Niels Bos, M. Boele, H. Korving, Michael Jaensch, Heiko Johannsen, M. von der Geest, C. Perez, E. Santamarina, Jean-Louis Martin, Robert Bauer, Klaus Machata
Because of their high number and slower reduction compared to fatalities, serious road injuries are
increasingly being adopted as an additional indicator for road safety, next to fatalities. Reducing the
number of serious road injuries is one of the key priorities in the EU road safety programme 2011-
2020. In 2013, the EU Member States agreed on the following definition of serious road traffic
injuries: a serious road traffic injury is a road traffic casualty with a Maximum AIS level of 3 or higher
(MAIS3+).
One recommendation created by the EU SUSTAIN project was to conduct “A more detailed study of
the causes of serious road injuries, [which] could reveal more specific keys to reduce the number of
serious injuries in the EU”. This recommendation is addressed through the identification of crashrelated
causation and contributory factors for selected groups of casualties with relatively many
MAIS3+ casualties compared to fatalities and groups with a relatively high burden of injury of
MAIS3+ casualties.
This deliverable is made up of two parts brought together in order to determine the main
contributory factors detailed above. This two-step approach initially identifies groups of casualties
that are specifically relevant from a serious injury perspective using national level collision and
hospital datasets from 6 countries.
Following the determination of groups of interest a detailed analysis of the selected groups using indepth
data was conducted. On the basis of in-depth data from 4 European countries the main
contributory and causal factors are determined for the selected MAIS3+ casualty groups.
Alongside the three proceeding deliverables that have formed the major outputs of WP7, deliverable
D7.4 is aimed at addressing serious injury policy at an EU levels. As such this report is broadly aimed
at policy makers although the inclusion of results from in-depth data analysis also provides
information relevant to stakeholders, particularly those working in vehicle design and manufacture
or road user behaviour.
Funding
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020
Framework Programme of the European Union
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Identification of Key Risk Factors Related to Serious Road Injuries and Their Health Impacts
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REED, S. ... et al., 2018. Identification of key risk factors related to serious road injuries and their health impacts, deliverable 7.4 of the H2020 project SafetyCube. Loughborough: Loughborough University.
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SafetyCube
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