Abstract
This paper describes the problems of defining the object of study, the delimiting of a levelled spatial system and associated paradigmatic influences. In particular it demonstrates the limitations of the road traffic accident con- cept by analysing commuting accidents. This concept does not include accidents involving track bound vehicles and pedestrian accidents with no motor vehicle involved, which are common in commuting accidents. These limitations are further developed in a three-level, epidemiologicalbased model. It integrates theore- tical elements of traffic safety on the micro level with time-space trajectories on the meso-level wich in turn is a set of the nodal region on the macro level. There are no major regional differ- ences of the commuting accident risk, which can not be referred to different length of journey. It is, however, suggested that the view of human-factor-caused accidents is substituted by the opinion that commuting accidents, and also traffic accidents in general, are mainly caused by environment factors.
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