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Adjustment of the number of injuries in view of the change in the degree of reportingand discrepancies in the official statistics indicate that the number of pedestrians injuredon a zebra crossing as a consequence of the obligation to give way to pedestriansincreased by an estimated 15–20%, and the number of severely injured pedestrians by5–10%. This represents a total of 40–50 injured pedestrians and4–8 severely injured pedestrians on an annual basis.There was an increase in the number of injury accidents caused by the new regulationwhere the pedestrian had not been hit. The most c<strong>om</strong>mon accident type is that thevehicle observing the regulation was hit fr<strong>om</strong> behind. The number of this kind of injuryaccidents doubled. This implies an estimated increase by 2–3 in the number of thoseseverely injured (in police-reported accidents), and an increase by about 50 on an annualbasis in the number of those slightly injured.8 VTI rapport 597

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