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PENDANT~Pan-European Coordinated Accident and Injury Databases
Technical Paper
2003-06-0132
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English
Abstract
Annually within the European Union, there are over 40,000 road
accident fatalities and 1.6 million other casualties and the
majority of these are either the occupants of cars or are in
collision with a car. The European Commission now has competency
for vehicle-based injury countermeasures through the Whole Vehicle
Type Approval system. As a result of this, the Commission has
recently recognized that casualty reduction strategies must be
based on a full understanding of the real-world accident data in
conditions broadly representative of the European Union and that
vehicle safety countermeasure effectiveness must be properly
evaluated.
To this effect, a new study known as PENDANT (short for
Pan-European Coordinated Accident and Injury Databases) commenced
in January 2003. This study is developing a coordinated set of
targeted, in-depth crash data resources to support European Union
vehicle and road safety policy. Over the course of the next three
years, around 1100 investigations of crashes involving injured car
occupants will be conducted in eight EU countries to a common
protocol. The data will be further enhanced by the linking of
hospital and police information to provide additional data on the
trends and injury patterns of over 60,000 road users of all
types.
This paper describes the methodology and purposes of the study
and expected impact within the European Union. It is expected that
the end result of the study will be a coordinated system to inform
European vehicle safety policy in a systematic integrated manner.
Furthermore, the results of the data analyses will provide new
directions to develop injury countermeasures and regulations.