Assessment of the road crash data collection system of Jordan.

11.Jan.2025

​This study aims to assess the Road Crash Data Recording System (RCDRS) of Jordan to evaluate its comprehensiveness and compliance with internationally accepted manuals, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, and to contribute to improving the country's road safety performance. Therefore, gaps in the existing RCDRSs were identified by interviewing officers at the Public Security Directorate (PSD) and a few of the medical staff at The Royal Hospital, and the extent of the under-reporting issue in the current PSD's RCDRS was specified through determining the compliance levels using minimum data elements identified and validated by the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Mapping and Comparison Tool (MCT). Furthermore, the study designed a data collection e-form and customized a crash code for further facilitating the collection and storage of crash data. International …