International Review of Economics, Management and Law Research
Abstract
Abstract: Although the topic is a multidisciplinary field, we will address, through this article, road safety from an angle, more or less economic. Thus, the scarcity of the human or material resources of the victims of the accident, the non-abundance of budgetary means allocated to mitigate the damage of the accident (hospital expenses, reimbursements of insurance companies, etc.), the efficiency of the choices to be learned by the public authorities to deal with the hecatomb and the socio-economic benefits of road users (individuals or companies), etc. are road safety issues that constitute, from near or far, a discipline that we can call "the economics of road safety".Through our analysis we arrived at these results: Although the objective of road safety is clear: "to save as much life as possible from the traffic hecatomb", the motivations of each stakeholder in a road safety are not homogeneous and can be even contradictory, that it is within the same group of actors or at the level of the society as a whole. Thus, the sources of this contradiction can be: cultural, social, economic, etc. which divides instead of gathering opinion of the different actors on questions like: the causes of the accident, the settlement of the prejudices of the insecurity road, the regulation which frames the road organization, the solutions to elaborate, of time to another, to improve the lives of road users. Finally, the rationality of our days is approached in an artificial way, restricted and limited by a cost-benefit approach peculiar to a modern, liberal and immoral society
