Future correction for underreporting

The objective is to estimate the actual numbers of casualties in Europe from the CARE database by addressing the issue of under-reporting and differences in national systems for injury classification.

SafetyNet will attempt to:

• Estimate the under-reporting level for each casualty severity (killed, seriously injured, slightly injured) by developing a uniform methodology and applying it in several EU countries.
• Estimate in each country the number of casualties according to a new common measurement unit.

The results from will expand the scope of EU road accident analyses considerably. It will become possible to make meaningful analyses of non-fatal accidents and casualties. This will allow consideration of road safety to extend beyond the current focus on fatal accidents. Moreover, the increased size of the data sets will reduce the effects of chance, thereby permitting more detailed analyses to be carried out.