ABSTRACT
The pedestrian safety problem In virtually every European country pedestrians account for between one-seventh and one-third of all road user fatalities. The proportion varies from 15 per cent in France and Belgium to 35 per cent in Great Britain (United Nations, 1990; Department of Transport, 1990). A large part of the explanation for the prominence of pedestrians in the casualty statistics is to be found in their vulnerability in an accident. British statistics for 1989 reveal that, in carpedestrian collisions, pedestrians had a 50 times greater risk of injury than car occupants and a risk of fatality that was 1072 times as great (one car occupant died in such collisions, as compared to 1072 pedestrians) (Department of Transport, 1990).
