Open AccessEconomic safety aspects of the road traffic in Poland
Author(s) -
T. Dyr,
Karolina Ziółkowska,
Agata Jaździk-Osmólska,
Małgorzata Kozłowska
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
central european review of economics and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2082-8500
pISSN - 2083-4314
DOI - 10.24136/ceref.2017.019
Subject(s) - payment , economic cost , business , impossibility , point (geometry) , rehabilitation , road traffic , economic risk , finance , actuarial science , transport engineering , economics , engineering , medicine , political science , geometry , neoclassical economics , mathematics , law , physical therapy
Road accidents are generating economic and public high costs. They include: losses resulting from the long-lasting or temporary impossibility of creating GDP, expenses on the treatment and rehabilitation of people injured in the accidents, costs of emergency services involvment, payment of compensations and benefits, financial losses or emotional suffering of the accidents' victims and perpetrators' relatives, leading to reduce their economic activity. Statistical data presented in the point out to the high risk of road accidents. Also causes of unsatisfactory level of the road safety improvement in Poland were presented.