Within the E-Survey of Road Users’ Attitudes (ESRA1) the concept of subjective safety and risk perception in road traffic was operationalized by asking respondents about their general perception of issues related to road safety, feeling (un)safe in using different transport modes, estimation of contributing factors to road accidents and perceived risk behaviours of other road users.

Further analyses looked at the association between road fatalities and subjective concern as well as between feeling (un)safe regarding different transport modes and fatality rates. As there was only a small number of self-reported accidents from the ESRA1 survey itself it was decided to use CARE data (Care Database, 2017) as an external source for road fatality rates. For this purpose, CARE data were put in relation to the ESRA1 survey data of the 20 European countries participating in 2015-2016.

In a next step this analysis will be extended to other topics of ESRA1 to further exemplify meaningful combinations of ESRA survey data with CARE accident data. The results bring new insight for stakeholders in the field of road safety, enabling them to set priorities regarding the implementation of and awareness-raising for road safety measures.