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Beograd, 15 October 2014

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1. INTRODUCTION
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The causes of death in the world according to age categories (2004); Source: WHO

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 The United Nations (UN) in 2010 declared the "Decade of Action for
Road Safety 2011-2020„, with main goal: Reduce the number of
victims on the roads by 50% by 2020.
 EU adapted its Road Safety Programme (2011-2020)
 The Croatian Government in April 2011, adopted a new „National
programme of road traffic safety of the Republic of Croatia 2011-
2020.”
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Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020

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2. BASIC INDICATORS OF ROAD TRAFFIC SAFETY
Overview of number of road fatalities in the Republic of Croatia (2001-2013); Source: Ministry of Interior

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Number of fatalities in road traffic per million inhabitants for all member states.

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3. ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY
MANAGEMENT
 „The Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety
management”.
 „Law on roads” from 2013. requires implementation of the Directive
on TEN-T roads.
 The Directive is applied through „Regulation on activities to improve
TEN-T roads safety”.
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Trans-European road network of the Republic of Croatia

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Road safety main stakeholders:
 Ministry of maritime affairs, transport and infrastructure (MPPI)
 Ministry of interior (MUP)
 Traffic inspection
 Croatian association of drivers and vehicle owners (HAK)
 Faculty of transport and traffic sciences (FPZ)
 Road management authorities (HC, HAC, ARZ, etc…)
Present situation:
 National programme of road traffic safety
 Black spot management
 EuroRAP
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Road category
Traffic accidents
Total % Killed % Injured %
Highway 1.708 5,0 30 9,1 328 3,0
State road (settlement) 1.722 5,1 37 11,3 672 6,2
State road (non-settlement) 3.051 9,0 70 21,3 1.155 10,6
County road (settlement) 1.293 3,8 18 5,5 536 4,9
County road (non-settlement) 1.007 3,0 24 7,3 473 4,3
Local road (settlement) 270 0,8 5 1,5 110 1,0
Local road (non-settlement) 316 0,9 10 3,0 126 1,2
Roads inside settlement 24.654 72,5 134 40,9 7.497 68,8
Total for all roads 34.021 100,0 328 100,0 10.897 100,0
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Traffic accidents by road categories in 2013.; Source: Ministry of Interior
Graphical overview of the percentage of traffic accidents by road category in 2012

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Traffic accident casaulties caused by errors and other causes in 2013.; Source: Ministry of Interior
Traffic accidents casaulties by participant age in 2013.; Source: Ministry of Interior
Participant age
Killed Injured
Total % Seriously % Lightly %
Uknown 0 0 1 0,0 1 0,0
Up to 6 years 5 1,4 31 1,1 306 2,5
From 7-13 years 3 0,8 111 3,9 588 4,7
From 14-17 years 12 3,3 124 4,4 562 4,5
From 18-24 years 58 15,8 426 15,0 2.284 18,4
From 25-34 years 63 17,1 476 16,8 2.761 22,2
From 35-44 years 47 12,8 377 13,3 2.024 16,3
From 45-54 years 55 14,9 452 16,0 1.777 14,3
From 55-64 years 50 13,6 402 14,2 1.241 10,0
Above 65 years 75 20,4 431 15,2 899 7,2
Total 368 100,0 2.831 100,0 12.443 100,0
Causes
Casaulties
Killed %
Seriously
Injured
%
Lightly
injured
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Driver errors 349 94,8 2.676 94,5 12.026 96,6
Pedestrian errors 12 3,3 113 4,0 265 2,1
Other causes 7 1,9 42 1,5 152 1,2
Total 368 100,0 2.831 100,0 12.443 100,0

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Before After %
Traffic accidents 6560 1595 75,6
Killed 138 15 89,1
Seriously injured 585 152 74
Lightly injured 2055 557 72,8
Traffic accidents for 3 year period before and after black spot reconstruction
Black spot management of state roads:
 Implementation process since 1998
 Up to 250 black spots have been reconstructed and improved
 Around 35 mil. EUR invested

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4. PLANNED ACTIVITIES
 Create Regulation on Auditors (10/2014),
 Adoption of guidelines for RSIA, RSA, NSM and RSI
(12/2014),
 Certification of educational programs for the auditor
training (12/2014),
 Create Auditor Manual (01/2015),
 Preparation of road traffic accident data and conduction of
TEN-T roads audit (02/2015).
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5. CONCLUSION
 Better cooperation between main stakeholders
 Road traffic accident database improvement
 Increase of road safety based on modern technologies
 The Directive implementation on whole road network
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 Thank you for your attention
Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure,
Directorate of Transport Infrastructure
Prisavlje 14, Zagreb, Croatia
drazen.antolovic@mppi.hr
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