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Building the European Road Safety Observatory: SafetyNet: Deliverable 5.8: In depth accident causation database and analysis report. AR2572

The research involved development of new methodologies for determining road accident causation and protocols for in-depth accident analysis, which can be used to inform the design of safer vehicles and road layouts.

Using these methodologies, research teams at each institution collected extensive data from scenes of real-world accidents. In total, over 1,000 accidents were investigated and data made available for analysis via a common database.

Volvo Cars, in conjunction with Chalmers University of Technology, used this methodology for determining pre-crash factors influencing older driver crashes at intersections (Broberg et al, 2008) whilst another study by Habibovic (2009) noted that new Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) could be conceptualised on the basis of data collected according to this method.

This publicly available peer-reviewed report provides details of a major pan-European study which was led by Dr Morris and involved a consortium of leading European road safety research institutions. The work was funded by the European Commission via a grant worth €13 million.