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Title:

Measuring the Relative Risk on a Serious Crash through Linking Mobility and Hospital Data: A Novel Approach Adopted in Belgium

Accession Number:

01588990

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In order to calculate the risk of being seriously injured or killed in a road accident, it is necessary to have access to detailed exposure data, to data on fatalities and to data on serious injuries provided by hospitals. In Belgium a first successful attempt has been made for developing more accurate and useful risk measures, in particular for severe crashes. A “severe crash” is defined as a crash in which at least one of the road users involved either died, or was “seriously” injured. Serious injured people are defined as having injuries with a MAIS score of 3+. The approach in Belgium is based on comparing hospital data from all Belgian hospitals and mobility data from a major national survey (Beldam) containing mobility data. The mobility data referred to the year 2009 and included detailed trip information of over 15,000 people. The hospital data concerned the years 2007-2011. All traffic victims in Belgium that stayed at least one night in any Belgian hospital were included in the data. The results of the project illustrate the considerable underestimation of traffic victims if only police data is taken into account. It also yielded measures of the relative risk of suffering from a severe road crash by age category and transportation mode compared to the average car driver. For instance, the risk of a motorcyclist (by km travelled) to get seriously injured or killed in a crash is 57 times higher than that of a car driver. Public transport is by far the safest transport mode for passengers.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB20 Standing Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-1878

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Martensen, Heike
Wouter, Van den Berghe
Nuyttens, Nina

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures; References (10) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Belgium

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I80: Accident Studies; I84: Personal Injuries

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-1878

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 4:49PM