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Über 80 Prozent aller an Unfällen mit Personenschaden beteiligten Kraftfahrzeuge sind Pkw. Für die Beschreibung der Unfallbeteiligung von Pkw unterschiedlicher Fahrzeugtypen und nach unterschiedlichen Fahrzeug- und Haltermerkmalen haben absolute Unfallzahlen jedoch nur eine geringe Aussagefähigkeit. Soll ein Vergleich der Beteiligung unterschiedlicher Teilkollektive von Pkw am Unfallgeschehen vorgenommen werden, so ist das Ausmaß ihrer Verkehrsbeteiligung zu berücksichtigen. Mit der "Fahrleistungserhebung 1990" (Hautzinger et al., 1993) liegen hierzu erstmals auch Fahrleistungsangaben differenziert nach Pkw-Typgruppen und nach Halter- und Fahrzeugmerkmalen vor. Grundlage der Untersuchung sind die Daten der an Unfällen mit Personenschaden und schwerem Sachschaden im Lande Nordrhein-Westfalen in den Jahren 1989 und 1990 beteiligten Pkw, ergänzt um fahrzeugtechnische Angaben des Kraftfahrt-Bundesamtes. Das fahrleistungsbezogene Unfallrisiko (Unfallrate) von Pkw wurde zunächst in Abhängigkeit von ausgewählten Fahrzeugmerkmalen (zum Beispiel Fahrzeugalter, Hubraum, Motorleistung) beschrieben und mit dem bestandsbezogenen Unfallrisiko (Unfall-belastung) verglichen. Danach wurde das Unfallrisiko von 228 verschiedenen Pkw-Typgruppen untersucht. Dabei wurden Zusammenhänge zwischen den Unfallraten der verschiedenen Gruppen, der mittleren Jahresfahrleistung, der Motorleistung und dem Alter der unfallbeteiligten Fahrer deutlich. Um den Zusammenhang zwischen dem fahrleistungsbezogenen Unfallrisiko verschiedener Pkw-Typgruppen und weiteren - nicht fahrzeugspezifischen - Einflussgrößen zu verdeutlichen, wurde anschließend die Pkw-Unfallrate in Abhängigkeit von wichtigen Strukturmerkmalen des Unfallgeschehens (zum Beispiel Ortslage, Fahreralter, Unfallursache) untersucht. Es zeigte sich, dass die festgestellten deutlichen Zusammenhänge zwischen Fahrzeugmerkmalen und Risikokenngrößen beziehungsweise die zwischen verschiedenen Pkw-Typgruppen gegebenen Unterschiede bei der Unfallrate und bei der mittleren Jahresfahrleistung einhergehen mit unterschiedlichen Fahrerpopulationen und unterschiedlicher Fahrzeugnutzung. So ist davon auszugehen, dass Pkw mit bestimmten Fahrzeugmerkmalen beziehungsweise bestimmte Pkw-Typgruppen, die hohe Unfallraten aufweisen, stärker von jungen Fahrern genutzt werden, und die im Mittel niedrigeren Jahresfahrleistungen dieser Pkw-Typgruppen zu einem vergleichsweise geringen Anteil auf den (sichereren) Autobahnen erbracht werden.
Aus Anlass der schweren Omnibusunfälle im Sommer 1992 hat das Bundesverkehrsministerium die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) beauftragt, eine Analyse der Gründe dieser Unfälle zu erstellen. Die vorliegende Sonderauswertung der amtlichen Straßenverkehrsunfallstatistik zur Frage der Sicherheit von Bussen unter Einbezug von Exposure-Daten ist Teil des von der BASt vorgelegten Untersuchungskonzepts. Die Anzahl der Busunfälle mit Personenschaden ist in den Alten Bundesländern von 1980 bis 1991 um insgesamt rund 22 Prozent auf 5.111 Busunfälle gesunken. Insgesamt verunglückten im Jahre 1991 bei Busunfällen 8.099 Personen (4.189 Businsassen), davon wurden 134 getötet (darunter 9 Businsassen). Im Jahre 1991 ereigneten sich in den Neuen Bundesländern 888 Busunfälle mit Personenschaden, dabei verunglückten 1.713 Personen (768 Businsassen), davon 110 (17 Businsassen) tödlich. Businsassen reisen vergleichsweise sicher. Das Unfallrisiko für Busse war zwar im gesamten Untersuchungszeitraum überdurchschnittlich hoch (Bus-Unfallrate 1991: 1,28; Gesamt-Unfallrate 1991: 0,69), ist jedoch auf eine sehr hohe Bus-Unfallrate auf Innerortsstraßen zurückzuführen. Das Risiko für Businsassen war dagegen in jeder Ortslage niedriger als das der Gesamtheit der Verkehrsteilnehmer (Bus-Verunglücktenrate: 0,071; Gesamt-Verunglücktenrate: 0,584). Auf den Bundesautobahnen (BAB) der Alten Bundesländer war die Anzahl der Busunfälle mit Personenschaden mit 238 im Jahre 1991 (703 Verunglückte) deutlich höher als im Jahre 1985, auf Landstraßen hingegen lag die Anzahl der Busunfälle und die Anzahl der Verunglückten niedriger. Die häufigste polizeilich genannte Unfallursache beim Busfahrer war "nicht angepasste Geschwindigkeit". Auf Autobahnen war der Anteil der Nachtunfälle von Bussen auffällig hoch. Auswirkungen der politischen Veränderungen in den osteuropäischen Staaten und der deutschen Wiedervereinigung werden in der Untersuchung des Unfallgeschehens im grenznahen Bereich zu den Neuen Bundesländern und der Auswertung der Herkunft unfallbeteiligter Busse deutlich: Im grenznahen Bereich ereigneten sich im Jahre 1991 rund 22 Prozent aller BAB-Unfälle von Bussen (1985: 14 Prozent), der Anteil der nicht in den Alten Bundesländern zugelassenen, dort aber unfallbeteiligten Busse betrug im Jahre 1991 rund 29 Prozent.
There is a need to continue to set the right vehicle safety policy priorities in the future. Research has to point out the most cost efficient and safety relevant measures to further reduce the number of road traffic casualties. The overall development shows that the constant and rapid decrease in the number of road casualties slows down. New innovations need to enter the vehicle market soon, in order to continue the success achieved in the last decade. Priorities for vehicle safety are driven by safety and mobility demands. It is necessary to keep a strong lid on all aspects of elderly and vulnerable road users. The fraction of powered-two-wheelers (PTW) is a priority group. PTWs have a risk of being involved in an accident, 14times higher than that of a passenger car. However, the figures do also show that every second fatality is a car occupant. Therefore passenger car safety remains to be top priority. Heavy goods vehicles are overly represented in fatal accidents, addressing the need to make these vehicles more compatible with other road users. These facts highlight the necessity not only to increase vehicles" self protection, but also to make cars - and trucks - more compatible and safe. Cycling is a strongly increasing mode of transport. This is a further reason to demand better protection for cyclists and pedestrians from car design and car active and integrated safety systems. Another priority for future vehicle safety is related to demographics. It is less known that the purely demographic effect will be superimposed by an increasing wish of elderly people to be mobile. However, elderly people show deficits concerning their biomechanics. This emphasizes the need for better and more adaptive restraint systems, but also further technological challenges and demands for active safety systems. However, in order to progress, current technological limitations have to be overcome. Cost benefit considerations, but also consumer acceptance and desires, will drive this process.
Analysis of the accident scenario of powered two-wheelers on the basis of real-world accidents
(2013)
For the first time since 20 years the German national statistics of traffic accidents revealed an increasing number of fatalities and seriously injured persons in 2011. This negative development was especially caused by increasing numbers in all groups of vulnerable road users (VRU). Furthermore, the comparison of fatality reduction rates between several categories of road users shows that persons on motorcycles show the worst performance over years. Although every second fatality in German traffic accidents is still a car occupant, users of PTW make up more than 20% in the meantime. Assuming further improvements in the field of occupant protection this trend will continue. For that reason, a study on the basis of real-world accidents was conducted to describe the accident scenario involving motorcycles and to identify the reasons of the above-described fact. Approximately 1.800 motorcycle accidents out of GIDAS database were used for the analyses. The first part of the study deals with the question how representative the GIDAS database is for the German motorcycle accident scenario. Afterwards, detailed descriptive statistics on motorcycle accidents were presented considering numerous parameters about the accident scene, environmental influences, vehicle information, individual characteristics, interview data, injury severity and injury causation. One important point is the identification of the most frequent critical situations that are typical for motorcycle accidents. Furthermore, a special focus was on accident causation. Finally, conspicuous facts out of the analysis are emphasized. All in all, the study gives a comprehensive overview about the German motorcycle accident scenario. One the one hand, the use of weighted GIDAS data allows representative and robust statements on the basis of large case numbers; on the other hand highly detailed conclusions can be drawn. The results of the study help to understand the particularities of motorcycle accidents and provide approaches for further improvements in the field of PTW safety.
It is very important for Automotive OEMs to get feedback on their product performance on real roads for continuous improvement. Every OEM has a way of collecting this feedback for various performance parameters. Systematic accident research is a way to generate the information related to safety performance of the vehicle. In India, while there is a large amount of data related to the accidents, it is found this data is aimed at understanding the gross statistics and not directly useful for technology development. This paper explains learnings from a pilot study carried out in collaboration with an Emergency Medical Services provider on one of the expressways (motorways). This pilot study has resulted in development of working model that could now be scaled up at for wider application. The paper also presents some of the important observations based on the data collected.
Police records about traffic accidents like used by IRTAD (International Road Traffic and Accident Database) and CARE (Community Road Accident Database) do not represent all road injuries. For instance, road accidents of bicyclists without a counterpart are usually not reported. Furthermore, IRTAD-like data contains hardly any information on injury outcome and accident circumstances. This information gap leads to an under-representation of the safety concerns of the most vulnerable road users like children and the elderly both in accident research and safety promotion. Injury registration for the European Injury Database (IDB), in turn, combines details of accident causation with diagnostic information that can be used to assess injury severity and long term consequences. The IDB is collecting data from hospital emergency department patients and is being implemented in a growing number of countries. In this article IDB results on mode of transport and injury outcome are presented from a sample of nine EU member states.
The increasing economics in India has an enormous growth of its road traffic. As observed from official Indian accident statistics the number of road fatalities are one of the highest worldwide. In contrast to most industrialized nations they have an rapidly increasing trend. To come along with this trend it becomes more than essential to understand the traffic accident situation. The official Indian accident statistics gives a glimpse of only basic information. Therefore more detailed data is needed. By using In-depth accident data and officially representative statistics the current accident situation can be evaluated in India, if a suitable weighting methodology is considered. Hence in 2009/2010 a pilot study with the collaboration partner JP-Research India pvt. Ldt. was gathered in Tamil Nadu in south of India. In-depth accident investigations were done around the Coimbatore area on four highways. At first, the collected data is evaluated. Due to consequent and continuous further development based on the first approach a methodology similar to NASS/CDS/GES in the US and GIDAS in Germany was developed. Of course all relevant accident related parameters including pictures and severity information were collected. As a matter of fact based on scaled sketches and reconstruction benefit analyses can be done in order to analyze the accident scenery in India. As a first outcome influence from infrastructure, missing education and vehicle safety were identified as key parameters in order to reduce the number of accidents and casualties. To compare the accident situation against international standards an accident classification for left hand traffic was developed based on the German Insurance classification system. Looking into detail additional accident types were identified and added to create an Indian accident type catalogue. The positive results encouraged several OEMs to participate in this investigation and together with BOSCH a consortium was established in 2010/11. Within one year from beginning in May 2011 about 200 highway accidents were collected, reported and reconstructed using the new standard. Hence a first good overview of the accident situation is available for the Coimbatore Tamil Nadu area. The major target for establishing accident investigations is the extension towards other states of India and urban areas to achieve a better overview of the accident scenery. Therefore local and national authorities have to be embedded in order to strengthen the awareness against traffic safety.
Since 2008, the authors inspected fatal traffic accidents on the spot every year, with the cooperation of Toyota police station in Aichi pref. In the jurisdiction, numbers of fatal accidents were 18 in 2008, 12 in 2009, 14 accidents in 2010, and 16 in 2011. We here report the results of our analysis of information obtained by detailed inspection for those that occurred from 2008 to 2010. We focused on vehicle-to-pedestrian accidents, which accounted for about 45% of all accidents in 2008. Because many accidents occurred on residential roads not far from pedestrians" homes, it was revealed that the decrease of the collision speed by traffic calming such as humps and zone speed management, was highly effective. On the other hand, pedestrian detection technologies seemed to be also effective as a countermeasure on vehicle side. Every pedestrian position against a vehicle was clarified and TTC (Time to Collision) was calculated provisionally. Pedestrian accidents in intersections were also examined. Among the intersection pedestrian accidents within the jurisdiction, compared with the national average in Japan, the ratio of intersections without a signal and the ratio without a pedestrian crossing were high. According to the comparison of the Japanese traffic accident patterns between 2001 and 2008, pedestrian accidents during turning right and turning left did not decrease much. For elderly drivers, these accidents occurred very often. Finally, single vehicle accidents were analysed with the accident pattern analysis methods used above. There were high numbers of single vehicle accidents against object on single roads. Although fatal accidents against guardrails decreased, the numbers of fatal accidents against a utility pole and a sign pole were nearly constant. As for the impact with narrow width objects such as utility poles, the fatality rate was very high, and countermeasures of both road infrastructure and vehicles seem to be effective.
This study analyses no.39 cases in which n.41 motorcyclists were fatally injured, or 36% of total motorcycle fatalities in Northern Ireland between 2004 and 2010 (n.114). There were n.17 cases (43.6%) where the actions of another vehicle driver caused the collision, in thirteen of these cases the motorcycles had their lights switched on. The remaining n.22 collisions (56.4%) were due to the actions of the motorcyclist. In the approach to the collision scene, there were n.13 cases (31.7%) in which the approach was a right hand bend and in n.8 (19.5%) cases, the approach was a left hand bend. In the remaining n.18 (43.9%) cases, the approach was a straight road. Of the n.17 (41.4%) motorcycles that slid after falling, n.10 (24.4%) fell onto their right side and the remaining n.7 (17.1%) fell onto their left side. The information from this study identifies primary and contributory causes of motorcycle collisions.