Weather and traffic accidents in the Czech Republic, 1979-2020

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F22%3A00567483" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/22:00567483 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00020699:_____/22:N0000022 RIV/00216224:14310/22:00125701

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00704-022-04042-3.pdf?pdf=button" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00704-022-04042-3.pdf?pdf=button</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04042-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00704-022-04042-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Weather and traffic accidents in the Czech Republic, 1979-2020

Original language description

Police records, kept in the form of yearbooks, enabled analysis of the possible relationships between traffic accidents and the weather in the Czech Republic for the 1979-2020 period. These data were used to create annual series of traffic accidents in general, accidents with only material damage, numbers of people injured (seriously and slightly) and fatalities. Seven weather categories were used to characterise the weather at the time of an accident. The categories ´rain´, ´onset of rain and light rain´, ´snowfall´ and ´glaze ice and rime´ proved the most important, contributing to the highest numbers of accidents, fatalities and injured. Less important were ´fog´, ´gusty wind´ and ´other inclement weather´. The influence of the relative annual proportions of all weather categories on the numbers of all accident characteristics fluctuated generally between 10 and 30%. Annual numbers of accidents, fatalities and injured attributed to individual weather categories were statistically significant when correlated with series of annual numbers of days with fog, rain, snowfall, glaze ice and gusty wind. The closest relationship emerged for snowfall, with correlation coefficients between 0.76 and 0.94. The annual numbers of accidents, fatalities and injured attributed to several of the weather categories tended to decrease, especially in the two most recent decades. The discussion section concentrates on the broader context of the results obtained.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000797" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000797: SustES - Adaptation strategies for sustainable ecosystem services and food security under adverse environmental conditions</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

ISSN

0177-798X

e-ISSN

1434-4483

Volume of the periodical

149

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

153-167

UT code for WoS article

000781227900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127664817