Ranking EU Progress on Road Safety
Overview
Background & policy context:
Lithuania, which reduced the number of road deaths by 22.3% last year, has achieved the best result among 32 countries participating in the Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) programme. It was announced by Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), at the 2017 Road Safety Performance Index conference in Brussels, where he presented an annual PIN report.
Objectives:
In 2010, the European Union renewed its commitment to improve road safety by setting a target of reducing road deaths by 50% by 2020, compared to 2010 levels. This target followed an earlier target set in 2001 to halve road deaths by 2010.
Methodology:
The High Level Group on Road Safety representing all EU member states identified three main ways member states can choose to collect the data in accordance with
the MAIS3+ definition:
1. continue to use police data but apply a correction coefficient;
2. report the number of injured based on data from hospitals;
3. create a link between police and hospital data.
ETSC recommends the third option but, as matching police and hospital data is not straightforward, member states that have not yet started this process should make use of option 1 or 2. Germany is applying a unique method which consists in calculating a projection based on data from the in-depth database GIDAS. Within the framework of the SafetyCube project financed by the European Commission, a study was published on serious road traffic injury data reporting practices. The study provides guidelines and recommendations for each of the three main ways to estimate the number of serious road traffic injuries in order to assist member states in MAIS3+ data collection.
In addition to MAIS3+ data, member states should also continue collecting data based on their previous definitions so as to be able to monitor rates of progress in the same way as prior to 2014 at least until these rates of progress can be compared with those under the new definition.
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