The British Traffic Conflict Technique

Abstract

In the United Kingdom, the majority of traffic accidents involving personal injury occur at road junctions, and ways of reducing these accidents are continually being sought. Attempts to discover common reasons for accidents at individual junctions using accident records alone have proved difficult as these records often contain unreliable or inadequate information. It was considered that the concept of nearaccidents or conflicts, which occur much more frequently than injury accidents, could potentially provide more information about the dangerous aspects of a junction in a relatively short time. They could also provide comparative before and after data for determining the effectiveness of any countermeasure introduced.