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Details on Road accident

A road accident  (or accident on the highway - AVP) is a shock  injury and / or property damage, whether such damages are caused to vehicles, part of the road or an external element to it (construction, furniture, cabin  phone (The phone is a communication system, originally designed for voice transmission.) tree).
Definitions

To facilitate international comparisons, in France, the Interministerial Committee for Road Safety, 7 July 2004 adopted the principle of harmonizing the definitions of gravity (gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions of physics.) Retained in the file  National injuries with those adopted by our main European neighbors. The law of 9 August 2004 on public health policy, and in particular Article 28, referred to a decree on the future development of statistics.

This decree was issued on 27 March 2007 It specifies the definitions:

Accident

A bodily injury (fatal and non fatal) of the Road Traffic (Road Traffic (anglicism traffic) is the movement of vehicles on the road.) Is an accident that:
causing at least one victim, ie a patient requiring medical care;
occurs on a highway open to public traffic;
involves at least one vehicle.
Users

An injury accident involving a number (A number is a concept which denotes a unit, a collection of units or a fraction of unity.) Users. Among these, there are:
the free: not involved died and whose condition does not require any medical care;
the victims involved is not free.

Among the victims were distinguished:
killed: a person who dies on the spot or within thirty days (the day the day is the interval between sunrise sunset, so the period between two ...) following the accident ;
the wounded victims not killed.

Among the wounded, there are:
the wounded in hospital: patients admitted as victims in a hospital more than 24 hours;
wounded mild victims which has been (generally speaking, the word object (from the Latin objectum, 1361) means an entity defined in a three ...) of medical care but not admitted as patients to hospital more than 24 hours (Time is a unit of measurement).