Abstract
The problem of road accidents has taken a particular accuity in most developed countries since the end of the Second World War, Among the numerous determinants of road accidents, the article isolates the influence of road characteristics. The analysis has been made by multiple regressions on a sample of road sections distributed among the nine Belgian provinces, the dependant variables being the rates (per million vehicles-kilometers) of accidents, of killed on the spot, of slightly and of seriously injured. Significant coefficients of influence have been obtained for the following characteristics: sinuosity of horizontal and of vertical profile of the road, average number of level crossings, presence of trees along the road, absence of lighting at night, crossings of built areas and number of lanes. The article also contains some comments about the speed limitation introduced in 1971.
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