Samar AbouRaad and Nellie Ghusayni Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)

1. Road crash and road crash injury data for setting and monitoring targets Samar AbouRaad and Nellie Ghusayni Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) Middle East and North Africa Road Safety Partnership (MENARSP) Workshop for Setting Regional and National Road Traffic Causality Reduction Targets in the ESCWA Region 16-17June, 2009 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2. Outline - What are GRSP and MENARSP? - Why is data important for setting targets? - What are the road crash and injury indicators? - How can data collection and analysis be improved?

3. Global Road Safety Partnership GRSP Mission the sustainable reduction of road death and injury in low and middle income countries. by helping to get straightforward good practice behavioural interventions made

4. Why Partnership ? Business Improved Road Safety Government Civil Society Health Transport Education Police Roads Justice

5. UN-ESCWA Middle East & North Africa Road Safety Partnership MENARSP aims to: Promote regional collaboration on road safety between governments, businesses, and civil society organizations Support the identification, development and implementation of road safety interventions based on evidence and good practices and capacity building projects that can be replicated in different countries of the region Facilitate the transfer of knowledge by collecting, developing, and disseminating road safety material, policies, plans and documents on good-practices; and wherever a specific need arises, identify opportunities for conducting training and delivering workshops. Provide a platform for governments, private sector, and non-profit organizations to communicate on road safety matters

6. UN-ESCWA Middle East & North Africa Road Safety Partnership • MENARSP Activities: • Newsletter and website • Supporting national road safety efforts in Oman • Supporting building road safety partnerships in Yemen • Providing material and expert advise on mobile phone use during GCC Traffic Week

7. Data Why collect data and build evidence on road crashes and road crash injuries?

8. Why is Data important? Understand the problem and social and economic burden of road crashes and injury Plan effective interventions Advocate action and investment in road crash and road crash injury prevention programmes

9. Planning: data can help with… • understanding the scope of the problem, also in comparison to other public health issues • understanding crash and injury trends • identifying high risk groups and locations • identifying main risk factors for crash and injury • designing effective strategies, interventions • facilitating objective decision-making about resource allocation (time, money) • monitoring and evaluating effectiveness towards achievement of targets

10. Advocacy: data can help with… • illustrating to politicians and the public the magnitude of the problem and burden vs other (competing) social and economic issues • aiding politicians demonstrate the value of unpopular policies (e.g. speed limits) to the public and solidly face opposition • winning public support and demand for safer roads

11. Road crash and injury data indicators Indicators are important tools for: • measuring the magnitude of a problem • setting targets • assessing performance

12. What are common indicators? Absolute figure of people injured Serious or slight injuries Absolute figure of people killed Ratio fatalities per vehicles Ratio fatalities to population Ratio fatalities to vkm travelled Healthy life yearslost due to disability and mortality

13. What are common data sources? Crash, victim, location, injury related information Injury severity and costs, victim related information Crash, victim, location, injury related information Same + damage and losses Population, exposure, health, economic, fuel, pollution Research, advocacy, unions, institutions involved in safety activities IRTAD, CARE

14. In-depth crash investigations Community based surveys (Ex:Red Crescent/Cross) Road user surveys - conflicts, seat belt and helmet wearing, speeds, drink-drive, violations Travel surveys and origin destination Crash costing Private sector studies – crashes involving people travelling for work purposes Other sources - Special surveys

15. Brazil -Health sector indicators Sao Jose dos Campos 2007 2008 Fatalities and serious injuries (per/10,000 vehicles) 14.04 12.49 Hospital admissions from road crashes 866 569 Guaiba 48% reduction in hospital occupancies due to road crashes from 2007 63% reduction in related social, medical etc costs from 2007

16. What data is needed to set and achieve targets that are evidence based?

17. Data needs for setting targets What can be measured can be managed! Minimum data needs for general road crash and casualty reduction target setting Data needs vary by type of intervention

18. Data reliability Accurate data iscritical for setting achievabletargets Shortfalls and under-reporting …influence understanding of the situation ..complicate monitoring and evaluation, also for target setting purposes Netherlandscomparison of police and health data (2007) Up to 6% fatalities, 40% of in-patients and 86% of minor injuries were not reported by police

19. Mandatory reporting requirement Regular training for police and health Standard definitions (crash, injury, death, etc) Simplify data requirements Quality control system Consider sampling How to improve data quality?

20. UN Collaboration Good Practice Manuals Build on the recommendations of the World report Recipe books for good practice on main risk factors implemented via a systems and partnership approach Arabic Arabic Data Systems (expected 2010) Translations into many languages

21. Additional indicators? What data is needed for effective interventions and target setting on the main risks and risk groups? (pedestrians, cyclists, elderly, children)

22. Objectives and performance indicators Possible Performance Indicators Possible Measurement tools Possible Objectives • Police crash data • Health sector data Reduce the number of deaths, injuries drink-drive crashes Fewer deaths, injuries from crashes involving driver with illegal BAC Reduce the number of drivers who are drinking and driving • Police breath test data Fewer drivers over the legal BAC limit • Healthsector data • … by gender, age • Pre/post campaign survey • Increase in number of community activities Increase action in community to prevent drinking and driving More community drink-drive prevention activities • Pre – post campaign data from justice • Increase in (RBT) • Number of court cases for drink-drive • Fewer drunk drivers Increase number of drivers prosecuted for drink-driving

23. Seat-belts and child restraints • Wearing rates • occupant position, gender, age; • vehicle type • Injury data fromhospitals • Vehicle inspection • Changes in public opinion You can collect this data through surveys See UNRSC manual Sakhalin Island, Russia

24. Thankyou for your attention! • www.grsproadsafety.org • www.menarsp.org (under construction)