Not
totally safe.
Road safety aims to reduce
the harm (deaths, injuries, and property damage) resulting
from motor vehicle collisions. Harm from road traffic
crashes is greater than that from all other transportation
modes (air, sea, space, off-terrain, etc.) combined.
Road traffic safety deals exclusively with road traffic
crashes – how to reduce their number and their consequences.
A road traffic crash is an event involving a road vehicle
that results in harm. For reasons of clear data collection,
only harm involving a road vehicle is included. A person
tripping with fatal consequences on a public road is not
included as a road-traffic fatality. To be counted a pedestrian
fatality, the victim must be struck by a road vehicle... |
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