Citation

Austin K. Traffic Eng. Control 1993; 34(11): 540-543.

Affiliation

Univ of Leeds, England.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Hemming Group)

DOI

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Abstract

The collection and use of supplementary safety information in addition to the Police-reported injury accident (STATS 19) records is necessary to improve the quantity and quality of the data and to provide extra information for safety studies, leading to cost-effectiveness in the provision of safety programmes. To achieve this there should be moves towards developing co-ordinated road safety strategies between highway authorities and associated outside bodies, such as hospitals and the Police. These ideas are mirrored by the Local Authorities Association in their document. The Road Safety Code of Good Practice. The results of a questionnaire sent to all highway authorities in Great Britain find that traffic flows, letters from the public and Police-reported damage-only accidents are the most often used additional source of data, whilst traffic flows and damage-only accidents are the most valuable. Shire Counties tend to collect more additional sources of data than other authorities. All have meetings with the Police, but Shire Counties and Non-English Authorities have more meetings with hospitals than Metropolitan Authorities and London Boroughs. Only six authorities provided any figures on the levels of under-reporting in their area and accident location was considered to be the most incorrectly coded STATS 19 variable.