The state of road safety in Poland and in five European Union countries larger than Poland has been characterized using indicators commonly used in such studies. The values of the indicators were calculated for the years 2002-2008, i.e., for a seven-year period. Thanks to this, they show a fairly stable direction of change. They can therefore be used to create forecasts and indicate actions to improve the state of road safety in the coming years.Significant threats to human life and health caused by road accidents are one of the most important social problems of the modern world. Improving the state of road safety is therefore becoming the main goal of many international and national programs. In the European Union, the 3rd European Road Safety Action Program has been implemented since 2001, and in Poland, the National Road Safety Program GAMBIT 2005. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine