Sri Lanka Police Road Accident Statistics - 1979 - Sri Lanka

Abstract
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Traffic Police Headquarters was established in 1953 and it assists the Inspector General of Police in taking decisions on traffic policies and thereafter it helps to implement them and closely monitor implementation. Policing of road traffic in Sri Lanka has become a major task for the Police. Implementation and Enforcement of regulations and Laws comes through powers vested on the Police by the Motor Traffic Act of 1951.The necessity to form a separate unit to control traffic within the city was recognized in 1950 by the Colombo Metropolitan Police. Due to the increase in volume of road traffic in the island the Traffic Headquarters was inaugurated in 1953 to cover the entire island.

Every station presently maintains a traffic branch. These officers have undergone extensive training in vehicle examining, traffic accident investigations and court procedures

The Traffic Administration and Road Safety Range has been formed under the supervision of a DIG at the Police Headquarters for the purpose of bringing under its control the growing number of motor vehicles that converge on to the main thoroughfares everyday. This Range is also responsible for the prevention of motor accidents from occurring, together with protecting property from such motor accidents, and also issuing circular instructions to all the Territorial Police in order to implement a better traffic management in the county. In order to carry out these tasks in an organized manner throughout the country, Traffic Branches have been formed in each of the Police Stations in the County. Range Traffic Divisions also have been set-up to supervise and guide these traffic branches who should liaise with the respective Range DIG's and the Police Headquarters Traffic Range.

Functions of the Traffic Headquarters
A senior Superintendent is attached to Traffic Police headquarters supervised by Senior DIG Traffic Administration and Road safety/DIG Traffic administration and Road safety designated as Director Traffic Administration and Road safety Traffic, Headquarters" His functions will include among other things, the following:-
To keep the Island's accident statistics.
To coordinate with RDA and other stake holders in order to identify Black Spot areas and to attend to Road infrastructure defects and to make preventive action.
To direct accident preventive action;
To examine the working of Divisional/District Traffic/Traffic Branches, with a view to bringing about co-ordination and uniformity in the methods of handling traffic problems throughout the Island
To co-ordinate with Ministry of Highways, Ministry of Transport, Commissioner General of Motor Traffic, National Road Safety Secretariat and other stake holders with regard to Traffic Administration & Road Safety.

The Police stations which are dealing with traffic activities are bound to record day to day road accidents they investigate on a common entry form. Based on the information in the entry form, each police station manually prepares an end of the month report and submits it to the Research and Planning Division of the Police Headquarters in Colombo for statistical purposes. This is called the Police Department Road Accident Report. The Department of Police is using the above report as the source document to extract road accident statistics.

Geographic coverage
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National Coverage

Analysis unit
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In this record keeping activity the unit of analysis is the accident investigated by a police officer.

Universe
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All road accidents investigated by a Police Officer in a Police Station in Sri Lanka

Kind of data
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Administrative records data [adm]

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The Accident Report Form

This form contains 31/32 items. It makes provision of the recording of location, date and time of occurrence, class of accident, conditions prevailing at the time of accident, circumstances under which it occurred and details of class of road user injured, vehicle(s) involved, drivers/riders and damage caused.

Items:

1. Division
2. Station
3. Urban/Rural - If urban state the name of MC/UC/TC (ie Municipal Council, Urban Council, Town Council). All other
areas are rural.
4. Serial Number - Station serial number to be entered as four digits (i.e 0001..0010 etc)
5. Month - Name of the month such as January
6. Day - Two digit day of the month - 08, 21 etc
7 Day of the week - Sunday, Monday etc
8. Time - by 24 hour clock such as 1230 or 2115.
9. Lighting condition - 1, 2, 3, 4.
10. Class of accident - 1, 2, 3, 4
11. Casualties - to be entered by Police Headquarters
12. Name of road - Where the name does not appear in the list provided, the locally used name is entered
13. Road condition - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
14. Condition at scene - Where more than one condition is applicable, the most appropriate to be highlighted 01, 02, ...12
15. Junctions or crossings 10, 02, 03,...12
16. Movement before accident - 1,2,3...6,7.
17. Vehicles involved - Up to four vehicles could be entered
18. Type of vehicle - 1,2,3,4.
19. Age of vehicle - If less than one year enter 00
20. Sex of Driver or rider - 1,2
21. Age of Driver rider - Completed years should be recorded
22. Condition of driver / rider - 1,2,3,4,5,6. Most appropriate must be highlighted if more than one is applicable.
23. Feature - 1,2,3,...9.
24. Manoevure - 1,2,3....13
25. Action - 1,2.....9.
26. Vehicle defects - 1,2,3.....11,12.
27. Part damaged - 1,2...7,8.
28. Casualty details
29. Nature of accident - not applicable for statistical purposes
30. Rough sketch - not applicable for statistical purposes
31. Place of accident - not applicable for statistical purposes

Amendments

The reporting of amendments to accident reports dispatched should be done as follows:
Items 1 - 16 and 28 - 31 should be reported on the amendment form. Amendments to items 17 - 27 should be reported on a Road Accident report form.
The amendment form contains six items. Division, station, Serial no, Urban/rural, month and amendments. When entering amendments the entries under items 1 - 5 should be the same as the entries made under these items in the accident report's 'Statistics Copy' which had been dispatched to Police Headquarters and which need amendment.
If any amendment have to be reported in respect of item 17 to 27 an Accident Report Form should be used as mentioned above.
The amendments made should be authenticated by the reporting Officer and the OIC of the station.

摘要
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交通警察总部成立于1953年，负责协助警察总监在交通政策方面做出决策，并在决策制定后协助实施并密切监控其实施情况。在斯里兰卡，道路交通管理已成为警察部门的一项重要任务。根据1951年《道路交通法》赋予警察的权力，法规和法律的实施和执行通过警察来完成。1950年，科伦坡市警察局认识到有必要成立一个单独的单位来控制城市内的交通。由于岛上道路交通量的增加，1953年成立了交通总部，以覆盖整个岛屿。

目前，每个警察局都设有交通部门。这些警官已接受了广泛的培训，包括车辆检查、交通事故调查和法庭程序。

在警察总部监督下，成立了一个由地区副总警监负责的交通管理和道路安全范围，旨在控制每天涌入主要干道的日益增长的机动车数量。该范围还负责预防交通事故的发生，保护财产不受此类交通事故的影响，并向所有地方警察发布通知，以在该县实施更好的交通管理。为了在全国范围内有组织地执行这些任务，每个警察局都成立了交通部门。此外，还设立了区域交通分部，以监督和指导这些交通部门，这些部门应与各自的区域副总警监和警察总部交通分部进行联络。

交通警察总部职能

一名高级警司被分配到交通警察总部，由交通行政管理及道路安全高级副总警监监督，该副总警监被指定为交通行政管理及道路安全交通总部总监。其职能包括但不限于以下几点：
- 维护岛屿的交通事故统计数据。
- 协调与RDA和其他利益相关者，以确定黑点区域，处理道路基础设施缺陷，并采取预防措施。
- 指导事故预防措施；
- 审查分区/地区交通/交通部门的运作，以期在整个岛屿上实现处理交通问题的方法和程序的一致性；
- 协调与交通部、交通部、汽车交通总长、国家道路安全秘书处和其他利益相关者就交通管理和道路安全事宜进行沟通。

处理交通活动的警察局必须记录每天发生的道路交通事故，并使用统一的登记表进行调查。根据登记表中的信息，每个警察局手动准备每月报告，并将其提交给科伦坡警察总部的研究与规划部门，用于统计目的。这被称为警察部门道路交通事故报告。警察部门正在使用上述报告作为源文件，提取道路交通事故统计数据。

地理覆盖范围
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全国覆盖

分析单元
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在本记录活动中，分析单元是由警察调查的事故。

总体
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斯里兰卡所有由警察局调查的道路交通事故

数据类型
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行政记录数据 [adm]

数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]

研究工具
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交通事故报告表

此表格包含31/32个项目。它提供了记录事故发生地点、日期和时间、事故类别、事故发生时的状况、事故发生的情况以及受伤的道路使用者类别、涉及的车辆、驾驶员/骑手和造成的损坏的详细信息。

项目：
1. 分区
2. 警察局
3. 城市或乡村 - 如果是城市，则填写MC/UC/TC（即市政议会、城市议会、城镇议会）的名称。所有其他地区均为乡村。
4. 序列号 - 警察局的序列号应输入为四位数字（例如0001..0010等）。
5. 月份 - 月份的名称，如一月。
6. 日期 - 月份的两位数字日期 - 08，21等。
7. 星期几 - 星期日、星期一等。
8. 时间 - 24小时制，如1230或2115。
9. 照明条件 - 1，2，3，4。
10. 事故类别 - 1，2，3，4
11. 受害者 - 由警察总部填写。
12. 路名 - 如果提供的列表中未出现该名称，则填写当地使用的名称。
13. 路况 - 1，2，3，4，5，6。
14. 现场状况 - 如果适用多个条件，则应突出显示最合适的条件01，02，...12。
15. 交叉路口或十字路口 10，02，03,...12
16. 事故前运动 - 1，2，3...6，7。
17. 涉及的车辆 - 可输入最多四辆车。
18. 车辆类型 - 1，2，3，4。
19. 车辆年龄 - 如果不满一年，则输入00。
20. 驾驶员或骑手的性别 - 1，2。
21. 驾驶员或骑手的年龄 - 应记录完整的年份。
22. 驾驶员或骑手的状况 - 1，2，3，4，5，6。如果适用多个，则必须突出显示最合适的条件。
23. 特征 - 1，2，3,...9。
24. 策略 - 1，2....13
25. 行动 - 1，2.....9。
26. 车辆缺陷 - 1，2，3.....11，12。
27. 损坏的部件 - 1，2...7，8。
28. 受害者详情
29. 事故性质 - 对于统计目的不适用
30. 粗略草图 - 对于统计目的不适用
31. 事故地点 - 对于统计目的不适用

修订

对于已发送的事故报告的修订报告，应按以下方式进行报告：项目1 - 16和项目28 - 31应在修订表上报告。项目17 - 27的修订应在道路交通事故报告表上报告。

修订表包含六个项目。分区、警察局、序列号、城市/乡村、月份和修订。在输入修订时，项目1 - 5的条目应与事故报告中“统计副本”下这些项目的条目相同，该副本已发送到警察总部并需要修订。

如果需要对项目17至27进行修订报告，则应使用上述提到的交通事故报告表。

所做的修订应由报告警官和站长的指挥官验证。