STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in Sweden
<p dir="ltr">If every driver in Sweden were to obey the speed limits there would be more than 100 lives spared each year. Every reduction of 1 km/h on average speed in the country saves approximately 20 lives per year (SRA 2015). One of many important measures in the later road safet...
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| author | Marie Skyving (10468519) |
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Engineering Civil engineering Health sciences Epidemiology Public health Law and legal studies Law in context Speed Limits Road Safety Cameras Traffic Surveillance Swedish Road Administration |
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| description | <p dir="ltr">If every driver in Sweden were to obey the speed limits there would be more than 100 lives spared each year. Every reduction of 1 km/h on average speed in the country saves approximately 20 lives per year (SRA 2015). One of many important measures in the later road safety work in Sweden is a project attempting to reduce speed, namely the implementation of speed cameras. Without a comprehensive increase in traffic surveillance it is difficult to achieve traffic safety (VTI 2005). The Swedish Road Administration together with the National Police Board put up the first speed cameras, or road safety cameras, in the late 1990’s and at the end of 2014 there were 1200 cameras monitoring 3000 kilometer of road stretches in Sweden. Before deciding where to install the road safety cameras the Swedish road traffic crash- and injury surveillance system, STRADA, was used to spot where accidents happened most frequently. STRADA is also a tool in the follow up work when evaluating the effects of the road safety cameras. The road safety camera project has been and still is a successful road safety work. When looking at data from STRADA from three examples (road 222, 225 and 268) of the approximately 120 roads with speed cameras one can see, when comparing a four year period before and after speed cameras, fatal accidents was reduced from a total of 8 to 3, and accidents with serious injuries as an outcome was reduced from 65 to 28. The road safety cameras have reduced the average speed on roads with cameras with 5% and are now appreciated to save up 20 lives and up to 50 persons from being seriously injured per year in Sweden.</p><h2 dir="ltr">Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Local and Global Health Science, title discontinued as of (2017)<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5339/jlghs.2015.itma.98" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.5339/jlghs.2015.itma.98</a></p> |
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| spelling | STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in SwedenMarie Skyving (10468519)EngineeringCivil engineeringHealth sciencesEpidemiologyPublic healthLaw and legal studiesLaw in contextSpeed LimitsRoad Safety CamerasTraffic SurveillanceSwedish Road Administration<p dir="ltr">If every driver in Sweden were to obey the speed limits there would be more than 100 lives spared each year. Every reduction of 1 km/h on average speed in the country saves approximately 20 lives per year (SRA 2015). One of many important measures in the later road safety work in Sweden is a project attempting to reduce speed, namely the implementation of speed cameras. Without a comprehensive increase in traffic surveillance it is difficult to achieve traffic safety (VTI 2005). The Swedish Road Administration together with the National Police Board put up the first speed cameras, or road safety cameras, in the late 1990’s and at the end of 2014 there were 1200 cameras monitoring 3000 kilometer of road stretches in Sweden. Before deciding where to install the road safety cameras the Swedish road traffic crash- and injury surveillance system, STRADA, was used to spot where accidents happened most frequently. STRADA is also a tool in the follow up work when evaluating the effects of the road safety cameras. The road safety camera project has been and still is a successful road safety work. When looking at data from STRADA from three examples (road 222, 225 and 268) of the approximately 120 roads with speed cameras one can see, when comparing a four year period before and after speed cameras, fatal accidents was reduced from a total of 8 to 3, and accidents with serious injuries as an outcome was reduced from 65 to 28. The road safety cameras have reduced the average speed on roads with cameras with 5% and are now appreciated to save up 20 lives and up to 50 persons from being seriously injured per year in Sweden.</p><h2 dir="ltr">Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Local and Global Health Science, title discontinued as of (2017)<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5339/jlghs.2015.itma.98" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.5339/jlghs.2015.itma.98</a></p>2015-11-12T09:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.5339/jlghs.2015.itma.98https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/STRADA_Road_traffic_accident_and_injury_data_in_Sweden/27175509CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/271755092015-11-12T09:00:00Z |
| spellingShingle | STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in Sweden Marie Skyving (10468519) Engineering Civil engineering Health sciences Epidemiology Public health Law and legal studies Law in context Speed Limits Road Safety Cameras Traffic Surveillance Swedish Road Administration |
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| title | STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in Sweden |
| title_full | STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in Sweden |
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| title_short | STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in Sweden |
| title_sort | STRADA: Road traffic accident and injury data in Sweden |
| topic | Engineering Civil engineering Health sciences Epidemiology Public health Law and legal studies Law in context Speed Limits Road Safety Cameras Traffic Surveillance Swedish Road Administration |