Serious road injuries ‘massively’ underreported
Most national governments are failing to significantly improve road safety due in part to an incomplete picture of the number of injuries on the roads and a lack of data on where and when incidents occurred, according to a new report from the European Transport Safety Council.
Most official statistics on road injuries in Europe are collated from police reports, but police can misjudge injury severity and rarely attend the vast majority of incidents involving pedestrians and cyclists when no motor vehicle was involved.
The report: Reducing Serious Injuries on European Roads can be downloaded here.
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