Mortality rates of motorcyclists compared with car occupants: a comparison between East and West Germany for 1980 - 1998
2001 (English)In: Proceedings of the Conference Road Safety on Three Continents in Pretoria, South Africa, 20-22 September 2000 / [ed] Asp, Kenneth, Linköping: Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, 2001, Vol. 15A, p. 196-208Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
A tragic consequence of the reunification of Germany in 1989 was the increasein traffic related fatalities. This paper addresses motorcycle accidents inGermany before and after the reunification. Several sources of statisticswere used in order to get a database for further analysis. Comparisons aremade with car accidents and fatalities of vehicle occupants. Considerabledifferences are found for the period before 1989. After the reunificationaccident rates for the former German Democratic Republic increases with anenormous rate. The author discusses possible explanations to this phenomenon.In general, it is concluded, that a sudden push in motorisation with thepresence of vehicles with more powerful engines together with inexperienceddrivers and a less developed road network led to this increase in fatalities.For the western part of Germany there seems to be no effect at all of thereunification process when it comes to traffic related accidents.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, 2001. Vol. 15A, p. 196-208
Series
VTI konferens, ISSN 1104-7267 ; 15A
Keywords [en]
Statistics, Analysis, Accident rate, Motorcyclist, Fatality, Car, Driver, Passenger, Germany, Before and after study
National Category
Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
Research subject
80 Road: Traffic safety and accidents, 812 Road: Collation of accident statistics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:vti:diva-4924OAI: oai:DiVA.org:vti-4924DiVA, id: diva2:673753
Conference
Proceedings of the Conference Road Safety on Three Continents in Pretoria, South Africa, 20-22 September 2000
2013-12-032013-12-032025-02-20Bibliographically approved