Economic safety aspects of the road traffic in Poland

• Authors: Dyr, Tadeusz , Ziółkowska, Karolina , Jaździk-Osmólska, Agata , Kozłowska, Małgorzata

Abstracts

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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.

• Publisher: Instytut Naukowo-Wydawniczy "SPATIUM"
• Journal: Central European Review of Economics & Finance
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 7-23

Contributors

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Dyr, Tadeusz

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Ziółkowska, Karolina

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Jaździk-Osmólska, Agata

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Kozłowska, Małgorzata