On the other hand, in countries when the required data have not been available, in particular for the East Europe countries and Spain, the RECORDIT estimates lead to higher values.

road category specific, separation of occupants and non-occupants, split into fatalities, as for Germany, Switzerland, UK, a same order of magnitude can be observed (between 2.9 and 6.4 €c/vkm). TRL, 2001) it can be noted that where the required accident data are available, i.e. Comparing the RECORDIT estimates for heavy goods vehicle in motorways with other studies, (e.g. If these figures are translated into the per vehicle km then the accident costs for Spain vary from 40 eurocents per km to over one euro per km the urban figure is equivalent to the total internal costs per road vehicle km. Urban roads have an external cost 3-4 times that of motorways. The difference in external costs found is explained primarily by the relative accident rates rather than the differences in the valuation of life and other components of external costs. RECORDIT – Final Report Table 4.10: External costs of road accidents € per 1000 vkm Motorway Other extra-urban roads Urban roads Austria 146 - Croatia 63 - Denmark 63 - France 83 211 296 Germany 73 187 261 Greece 94 - Hungary 112 293 402 Italy 190 458 652 Netherlands 57 - Poland 114 277 393 Slovakia 130 - Slovenia 104 - Spain 405 986 1,393 Sweden 43 102 149 Switzerland 46 - 128 United Kingdom 20 83 84 For motorway driving the external cost varies by a factor of 20 between the lowest (UK) and the highest (Spain).

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