TRACE - Traffic Accident Causation in Europe

Despite these fatality reductions, Road Safety remains one of today's main societal concerns. Although car manufacturers in particular have gone to great efforts to improve their vehicles passive and active safety over the past 15 years, current road safety research has shown that an asymptote is about to be reached in most countries (even though France recently showed an unprecedented reduction in fatalities through stricter law enforcement policy including the installation of automatic speed cameras) and experts agree that preventive and active safety should now be brought to the fore.