Abstract
Road accidents are a major societal issue for every country. The purpose of this paper is to assess the number of traffic and road accidents depending on a series of variables (collision mode, road configuration, conditions of occurrence, road category, type of vehicle involved, personal factors, and length of time of the driving license) in Romania from 2012–2016. The analysis of the road accident trend identifies the causes of accidents, road safety performance indicators, and risk indicators. Having these identified data, a framework is proposed for improving the road safety system and reducing accidents. The Romanian Police, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) in Romania, and the European Commission provided the data used for this analysis. The data obtained from these databases are analysed and evaluated according to a series of variables. This paper will outline an informative image of road accidents and establish a framework for reducing their effects in road transport. As a result of the analysis, we have seen that the combination of vehicles and personal factors influences the number of traffic and road accidents.
Highlights
Road and traffic accidents involve uncertainty and are unpredictable
The purpose of this study is to evaluate road and traffic accidents in order to get a picture of performance and safety in Romania
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the accidents that occurred in Romania
Summary
Road and traffic accidents involve uncertainty and are unpredictable. These accidents are based on a number of causes that depend on a number of variables, such as: no priority to pedestrians, no priority to vehicles, the unlawful crossing of pedestrians, bicycle rider’s deviations, speed not adapted to road conditions, deviations of the drivers of animal traction vehicles, and so on. As a result of the evaluation of the specialised literature [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19], it can be noticed that the road accident factors are mainly dependent on: the driver’s experience, the environment of the accident, the road category, the driver’s age, the type of the vehicle and the length of time from acquiring the driving license. A framework for improving the road safety system in Romania is proposed based on a bibliographic review and qualitative and semi-quantitative statistical data analysis
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