Are road traffic crash fatality rates converging among OECD countries?

Health at a Glance 2013

“…Chile is the only country where mortality rates due to transport accidents have increased, and are now at a similar level to countries such as Korea, the United States and Greece. At the start of the 1990s, Chile's mortality rate was comparatively low and its rise in road traffic fatalities may be associated with its rapid economic growth during this period (Nghiem et al, 2013 In some countries hard-hit by the economic recession, the downward trend has accelerated after 2008. Preliminary data suggests that the rate of decline between 2009 and 2012 in Greece and Ireland is even greater than the longterm average observed in those countries.…”

The trend towards convergence in road accident fatality rates in Europe: The contributions of non-economic variables

“…This idea is particularly relevant taking into account the lack of significant evidence of the overall convergence of OECD country road traffic fatality rates found in the recent study conducted by Nghiem et al (2013).…”

“…Fourth, the findings obtained by recent research for the OECD countries (Nghiem et al, 2013), does not enable convergence on traffic crash fatality rates as a whole to be spoken of, although there seems to be evidence of the convergence of sub-groups of countries.…”

“…Even convergence of road safety in the whole of the OECD is studied by Nghiem et al (2013) by log t test as a Kuznets' function depending on the economic development status of the countries.…”

From the analysis of European accident data to safety assessment for planning: the role of good vehicles in urban area

“…In the EU-19, the total number of fatalities within urban areas each year has fallen, while the proportion on total has increased slightly (DaCoTA [9]; Nghiem et al [10]). By 2050, the EU should move close to zero fatalities in road transport.…”