Economic valuation of preventing fatal and serious road injuries. Results of a Willingness-To-Pay study in four European countries.

This paper presents the results of a stated choice study for estimating the Willingness-To-Pay of respondents in four European countries (Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands) to reduce the risk of fatal and serious injuries in road crashes. Respondents were confronted with hypothetical route choices that differ in respect of travel costs, travel time and crash risk. The survey was completed by 8,002 respondents, equally spread over the four participating countries and representative for each country with regards to gender, age and region.

Estimated number of seriously injured road users admitted to hospital in France between 2010 and 2017, based on medico-administrative data.

Background: In France, like in most developed countries, the number of road accident fatalities is estimated from police data. These estimates are considered to be good-quality, unlike estimates of road injuries admitted to hospital, and especially serious injuries.

Methods: The present study aimed to supply such data from French hospital medical information data-bases (PMSI).