Road safety statistics - The high value of crash data

High quality and plentiful data on where, when and why crashes take place is essential if road safety is to be improved, argue TRL’s Sanjay Vadgama and John Fletcher

05 May 2011

THE TRL iMAAP software is a fully web-based system capable of handling a wide range of database platforms and GIS formats

TRL’s Sanjay Vadgama and John Fletcher have worked on the development of the company’s iMAAP crash database software

John Fletcher

Over 1.3 million people die each year on the world’s roads and more than 50 million sustain injuries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts that road traffic injuries will rise to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. And, unlike some other leading causes of death, road traffic collisions affect the young and the otherwise healthy and are the leading cause of death for young people aged 10-24.

Road deaths and injuries occur in a large number of small and dispersed...