ROAD SAFETY STATISTICS

AN OVERVIEW
 Road Crash is
NOT AN ACCIDENT!
ACCIDENT occurs when
System Demands more than
User can Perform

User Performance

Demand /
Performance

System Demand

Time / Location
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 Accident Components
System Demand
Indicators
Road
Design
Road Furniture (Traffic Signs)
Maintenance (Skid Resistance)

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 Accident Components
User Performance
Indicators

Driver Vehicle
Training Breaking
Education Roadworthiness
Attitudes Speed

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Data parameters and their quality
Sources of data
• police
• road administration
• hospitals / health system
• insurance companies
International STATISCTICS
Nature of Traffic and Road Users
 Road safety parameters
• Modes of Transport
• Traffic Patterns
• Classification of Road Users
• Behaviour of Road Users on Road
Modal Share in broad terms–
Pakistan situation
 Modes in Road Transport
• Motorized
– Cars
– Motorcycles
– Rickshaws
– Buses/Mini Buses
– Trucks/Trailers
• Non-Motorized
– Bicycles
– Animal push Carts (Donkey/Horse Carts)
– Pedestrians (Walking Mode)
 NATURE OF TRAFFIC
• Traffic nature varies accordingly with the changes in the environment
and areas
• Mixed flow pattern of traffic (Heterogeneous traffic) is normally
observed in Karachi, Pakistan. Mostly due to existence of extremes of
wealth and poor (dual economies)
 Traffic Patterns and Road Accidents
• Increase in traffic flow (exposure to road)
…..increase in Road Accidents
• Increase in speed….Increase in Road Accidents

• Depending on the degree of heterogeneity in

the traffic mix, fatalities and injuries may
decrease even if the exposure of vulnerable
road users (road users outside car and buses)
increases. (See next slide)
 More on Traffic Heterogeneity
• This traffic is characterized
by lack of any effective
channelization, mode
segregation or control of
speeds.

• Lane discipline is deficient

in heterogeneous traffic ,
creating more conflict
points