Definitions
In Poland road safety analysis use the definitions published in Regulation No. 31 of the Police Commander-in-Chief of October 26, 2015 on the methods and forms of traffic incident statistics conducted by the Police and Regulations No. 40 of the Police Commander-in-Chief of December 18, 2017 amending the ordinance on methods and forms of traffic incident statistics conducted by Police.
b) other injuries causing disturbance of the functioning of a bodily organ or health disorder lasting longer than 7 days.
- Collision of vehicles in traffic – with at least 2 vehicles in motion. Type of vehicles’ collision: front impact, side impact, rear impact;
- Hitting a pedestrian – when within a road (roadway, pedestrian crossing, roadside, pavement, etc.) the vehicle hit:
a) a pedestrian, including a person riding a skateboard or scooter, or
b) a person performing works or other activities on the road. -
Types of Others includes:a) rollover of vehicle – when the vehicle rolled over to the side or on the roof,b) accident with a passenger – when in the event the passenger fell out of the vehicle while travelling, was pressed by the bus’s door while getting on or off, fell over in a public transport vehicle or in a truck carrying people outside the driver’s cabin,c) other – when the accident couldn’t be classified to above mentioned.
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Hitting an object on road – an accident with one vehicle (single), which includes categories of:a) hitting a tree, when a vehicle hit a tree,b) hitting a pole or road sign, when a vehicle hit a pole or another road element within roadway,c) hitting a protective crash barrier, when a vehicle hit a protective barrier,d) hitting an animal – when a vehicle hit an animal,e) hitting a hole, hump or bump – when a vehicle hit a hole, pothole, bump, rut,f) hitting other object (railway barrier, stationary vehicle) – when a vehicle hit a barrier or half-barrier on railway crossing or when a vehicle hit a stationary vehicle, when stopping the vehicle didn’t result from traffic conditions, regardless of its position and location, for example: broken vehicle standing on the road, roadside, pavement, etc.
- day - when the accident occurred during a day (sunrise and sunset are taken as a limit values),
- night – when the accident occurred during the time of limited visibility, i.e.:
a) at dawn or at twilight, i.e. before sunrise or after sunset and, as well as when the cloudiness of the sky caused the later start of daylight lightning or early dusk,
Note: Do not confuse the built-up area with the city. Built-up area may occur in urban area that are not cities. As of January 1, 2020, there are 944 cities and 66 provincial cities in Poland. The list of provincial cities have been included on the interactive map of POBR.
of accident locations are distinguished on the POBR interactive map:
- pedestrian crosswalks – when the accident occurred on marked pedestrian crossing,
- other pedestrian crosswalks – when the accident occurred on pavement, sidewalk
or pedestrian roads marked with road sign ”road for pedestrian” or on the public bus stop, - bicycle crossing – when the accident occurred on the marked bicycle crossing (data collected by Police since November 2015),
- bicycle track, bicycle lane, advanced stop line for bicycle – when the accident occurred
on the bicycle track, bicycle lane, advanced stop line for bicycle (data collected by Police since November 2015), - tram crossing/passage, tram track – when the accident occurred on the tram passage or tram track (within tram track on the road or separated tram track),
- guarded railway crossing – when the accident occurred on the railway crossing equipped with barriers or half-barriers, as well as vertical signs, including the sign "damaged barrier",
- unguarded railway crossing – when the accident occurred on the railway with no barriers
or half-barriers, - other on the carriageway - when the accident occurred on the road, but not on the pedestrian crossing nor bicycle crossing,
- others – when the accident occurred on the bridge, viaduct, connecting road/ junction, in a tunnel, on a lane of roads with two one-way carriageways, a lane dividing two one-way carriageways, a roadside (regardless of whether the roadside was paved or unpaved), a parking, parking lot or Motorway Service Area, in an area of roadworks or in a place where temporary marking has been introduced in connection with road works carried out, entering a road from real estate, from a road side facility or access to this facility, from a road not by public road and from a residential area, from a field or on a hard road from dirt road, from a deport or from a loop of rail vehicles or when a vehicle has hit a slope or has entered a ditch, as well as in other places not mentioned above.
or not at the junction:
- at the junction – when the accident occurred at the junction of roads with no priority
or at the junction with one road with priority or at the roundabout, - not at the junction – when the accident occurred on the other location outside,
not at the junction.
- with traffic lights – when the accident occurred at the junction or in location not at the junction, equipped with operating traffic lights transmitting signal sequences:
(shuttle traffic),
- no traffic lights – when the accident occurred at the junction or not at the junction, in location equipped with no operating traffic lights or in an area where traffic light were not present.
of POBR are as follows:
- roads, as a part of international roads network,
- roads, as a part of TEN-T,
- roads, as a part of national (K), voivodships (W), provincial and municipalities,
- urban roads within the administrative boundaries of cities (not necessarily in the built up area).
- national motorways (A), marked with signs “national motorway” and “end of national motorway”,
- national expressway (S), marked with signs “national expressways” and “end of national expressway”,
- national other (K), which are neither national highways nor national expressways.
Note: the division into international roads and TEN-T networks only applies to national roads.
A national road or its section can be both an international road and a TEN-T network at the same time.
(in accordance with REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL (EU)
No 1315/2013 of December, 11, 2013 as amended), which is a part of the trans-European road network;
in a wheelchair, a person using personal transport devices (scooter, skateboard, rollers, roller skates, etc.), as well as a person under 10 years old riding a bicycle under the care of an adult.
- passenger car – a motor vehicle designed structurally for transporting no more than 9 persons with the driver and their luggage; this category also includes goods vehicles - other private vehicles converted into commercial use, different type of vehicle is written in its registration certificate.
- goods vehicle – a motor vehicle designed structurally for transporting loads; term includes goods vehicle - and passenger car designed for transporting loads and people from 4 to 9 together with the driver. This category is divided into:
3.5t mgw, goods vehicle over 3.5t mgw,
- bus - a motor vehicle designed structurally for transporting more than 9 persons with the driver; this category includes: public bus, i.e. publicly available, provides regular passenger service according to the timetable and along specific routs of transport network and other bus (i.e. school bus, sightseeing bus),
- motorcycle – two wheeled motor vehicle, or two-wheelers with side car, or three-wheelers with symmetrical wheel arrangement; this category includes:
a power not exceeding 11 kW and a power -to -weight ratio not exceeding 1 kW/kg
(data collected by the Police since November 2015),
- moped – two or three wheeled vehicle equipped with combustion engine with displacement not exceeding 50cc or with an electric motor with power of not more than 4KW and with design limiting travel speed to 45 km/h.
- bicycle/bike – a vehicle with a width not exceeding 0.9 m moved by the muscular strength
of a person riding it, this category includes a bicycle equipped with electric power by a voltage
of not more than 48V with power not more than 250W, whose output power decreases gradually and drops to zero after exceeding 25 km/h. - train – a rail vehicle with or without power or composition of rail vehicles, which is adapted
to move on its own wheels on railway tracks. - tram, trolleybus – common category for electric vehicles, where:
- quad – motor vehicle designed for the transport of person or goods, excluding passenger car, goods vehicle and motorcycle. This category includes:
to 45 km/h (data collected by the Police since November 2015).
- Right Hand Drive vehicle (RHD), a motor vehicle with the driving wheel on the right hand side (data collected by the Police since November 2015).
- agricultural tractor / slow moving vehicle – a common category for:
- other – common category for:
- state after consuming alcohol – when the blood alcohol content is between 0,2 and 0,5 per mille (or from 0,1 to 0,25 mg in 1 dmᵌ of exhaled air),
- under the influence of alcohol/state of intoxication – when the alcohol content in the blood exceeds 0,5 per mille (or 0,25 mg in 1 dmᵌ of exhaled air) or leads to a concentration exceeding this value.
- every driver driving the vehicle involved in an accident (also when not injured),
- a passenger of the vehicle, if he contributed to the accident or was injured in it,
- a pedestrian, if it contributed to the occurrence of the accident or was injured in it.