Cause of accident
A cause of an accident describes the misconduct of a person or a situation that leads to a road traffic accident . As part of a local accident investigation , an accident is assigned one or more accident causes from the accident cause directory . This directory lists 89 different cause designations divided into 5 main categories. The causes of accidents are not explicitly shown on the accident card, but can appear to a limited extent as accident circumstances.
See also: accident type , accident analysis
Web links
Wiktionary: cause of accident - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Applicable decrees (SMBl. NRW.) As of October 9, 2019 , Appendix 8: Causes of accidents (PDF file; 21 KB)
- Road traffic accidents, participants, casualties and causes of accidents in 2014 by country and location . (PDF; 6 MB) destatis.de, 2014, p. 322
- Traffic traffic accidents . (PDF; 7 MB) destatis.de, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Research Society for Roads and Transport: Definitions, Part: Transport Planning, Road Design and Road Operation . FGSV Verlag, Cologne 2000, p. 74 .
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Traffic, traffic accidents (= series 7, series 8 ). Wiesbaden 2014, definitions and methodological explanations for road traffic accident statistics, p. 13 ff . ( destatis.de [PDF]).