In-depth Analises of Road Accidents, State-of-the-art and the Possibilities for the Implementation in the Republic of Serbia

To properly define countermeasures to improve traffic safety it is necessary to determine the specific causes and circumstances of accidents. In this sense, the current practice, developed a series of tools for the analysis of accidents that can accurately point to the problem. In-depth analysis of accidents or as they are called independent assessment of traffic accidents is one of the modern tools in traffic safety analysis. Worldwide, this method is recognized as one of the key methods for analysis of traffic accidents and accidents with the most severe consequences. However, the practice is not entirely agreed about procedures which are going to carried out in such an analysis, and is not fully complied participants in the in-depth analysis. This paper aims to show the current global best practice in terms of in-depth analysis and, according to the obligation to conduct such analyses as defined in the Law on Road Traffic Safety in Article 156, but also to show the possibilities for the implementation in the Republic of Serbia.