Compatibility EU road safety data

Currently, the only comparable EU road safety data are the numbers of fatal accidents and of people killed, where the degree of under-reporting is acceptably small in most EU Member States and there is a common injury classification. The same is not true of non-fatal accidents and of people with non-fatal injuries. At present the numbers of non-fatal accidents and of people seriously and slightly injured cannot be compared in different EU Member States. In addition, the definition of injury severity differs among member states, so that a casualty which would be recorded in one country might not be recorded in another, while a casualty which might be recorded as ‘serious’ in one country might be recorded as ‘slight’ in another.