Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics on road traffic accidents illustrate the extent and the nature of all accidents involving casualties, who are known by the police. The information on road traffic accidents is classified into three main groups: information about the accident, information about the element (vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles) and information about the person.

Classification system

Descriptions of codelists and classifications are only available in Danish.

Sector coverage

Administrative.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Injury: Injured or killed by road traffic accidents to the extent of all accidents, who are known by the police.

There are 3 categories:

1. Deaths by the accident are persons who died within 30 days as a result of the accident. Persons who have committed suicide in traffic or have died before the accident, for example from cardiac arrest, are not defined as killed in the statistics.
2. Accidents involving lightly injured people have suffered less serious injuries that require treatment by a doctor or dentist. Minor skin abrasions, small cuts or small "bruises" are not considered injuries.
3. Accidents involving serious personal injury have suffered injuries such as skull or bone fractures, concussion, lesions of the chest, spine or neck and severe sprains.

Under influence of alcohol: Under influence of alcohol - the level of alcohol in the blood should be above 0,050 promille.

Statistical unit

• Injured persons
• Number of element in traffic accidents with injured persons
• Number of traffic accidents

Statistical population

All accidents involving casualties which are known by the police constitute the population

Reference area

Denmark.

Time coverage

1993-

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

• Injured persons
• Number of element in traffic accidents with injured persons
• Number of traffic accidents

Reference period

01-01-2020 - 31-12-2020

Frequency of dissemination

• Monthly publication of provisional data (until 1 January 2003).
• Quarterly publication of final data (until 1 January 2003).
• Annual publication of final data.

Legal acts and other agreements

The information is collected in accordance with the Act on Statistics Denmark (Lov om Danmarks Statistik), Section 6, cf. Order no. 599 of 22 June 2000.

Council Decision (93/704/EC) of 30 November 1993 on the creation of a Community database on road accidents.

Cost and burden

There is no response burden as the data are collected by the police.

Comment

Statbank. See under living conditions.