The document discusses road safety in Croatia and efforts to reduce traffic fatalities. It notes that Croatia adopted a National Road Safety Program for 2011-2020 in line with EU and UN goals. Key points: 1) The number of road fatalities in Croatia decreased from 2001-2013, but the rate remains higher than the EU average. 2) Most accidents occur on highways and state roads outside settlements, and are primarily caused by driver errors. The majority of fatalities are among those aged 18-65. 3) Croatia is working to improve road infrastructure safety through black spot management and adoption of an EU directive on road safety audits. 4) Upcoming activities include regulations on auditors,

1. Beograd, 15 October 2014

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

3.  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.

6. 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

8. 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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9. 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
%
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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13. 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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14. 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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15.  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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