Proactive Partnership Strategy - Global Road Safety Partnership

Step 2. Data Collection,
Management and Analysis
The need to establish, manage, analyze and use reliable data is crucial in
getting an efficient and effective pathway towards reductions in the number
of fatal and serious crashes, fatalities and serious injuries, an advanced road
safety culture and related improvements in the quality of life in general and
human life in particular. Reliable data is the basis of an evidence based
approach to road safety.
2.1 Establish a Data Management Team
The PPS Team needs to appoint a Manager of Data Management Team
who will ultimately take responsibility for data collection, management
and analysis. The Manager then establishes the team (DMT). The Data
Management Team, DMT, is of paramount importance to the PPS Team.
The key tasks of the Data Management Team are to:
• co-ordinate collaboration between organizations to arrive at shared
definitions, and a process for recording and sharing the data.
• be responsible for capturing / receiving and storing fatal / serious injury
crash data from multiple sources on a monthly basis. The sources of this
data are police, health emergency services, municipality hospitals, private
hospitals and the legal medical institute or its equivalence. The DMT
should not wait for very reliable data to become available. They need to
continuously improve the quality of the “In Situ” data available and then
add and continuously improve KSI (Killed and Serious Injury) data on a “30
days” basis.
• at the end of every 30 day period reclassify all crash data (according
to the fatality and injury classifications agreed upon) leading towards
reliable identification of fatal and serious crashes (FSC).
• undertake the FSC analysis.
• identify Local Major Risk Factors, Local Main Risk Factors and Local Key
Risk Factors, related tables /graphs / maps / reports and make these
available to the PPS Sector Teams so they can plan programmes, projects
and systems and also continuously review their progress to determine if
they are achieving their set targets.
Case Study
The definitions of Crashes, Fatalities
and Injury that are used in the PPS in
Brazilian context are:
Road Traffic Fatality – Any person
killed immediately or dying within
30 days as a result of a road traffic
crash.
Road Traffic Injury – A person who
has sustained physical damage
(injury) in a road traffic crash.
Serious Injury –
1st level (minimum) - Injury that
requires admission to hospital for at
least 24 hours.
2nd level – Injury that requires
admission to hospital for at least 24
hours, or specialist medical attention,
such as fractures, concussion, severe
shock and severe lacerations.
Slight Injury – Injury that may require
little or no medical attention. For
example, sprains, bruises, superficial
cuts and scratches.
The classification of RTIs is used to
determine the classification of RTCs
(Road Trafffic Crashes). Crash injury
severity is described according to
the most severe injury sustained by
those involved in the crash
In Brazil there are two main types of
crash data: In situ crash data and
30 days crash data. 30 day data is
considered to be the most reliable
and the basis for decisions about the
interventions that will take place and
to get the best return on investment.
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