Background and Purpose: Use of the road traffic resource inevitably
leads to significant human andmaterial losses. Thus, the standardized death rate among older people (65years) in the European Union was 19.8 in 2000 and 11.9 in 2011. A model is proposed of human loss through RTA to establish the main resource losses and major risk loss factors for victimization of the elderly population (65years), as compared to the risk prone young population (18–24 years).
Materials andMethods:Data onRTA in Croatia are obtained fromthe
official government bulletin for road safety of the Ministry of the Interior for the period 2000–2011. Minimum and maximum number of victims and mean expected loss are used for determination of environmental risks and risk proneness.
Results and Conclusions: A comparative victimization analysis for
Croatia for the period 2000–2011 shows significant losses for mild and
severe injury to younger RT participants, increased mild injury to elderly drivers, and increased severe injury among elderly pedestrians.Risk ismostly expressed in fatal RTA for younger participantswith risk proneness of 32.4%. The most exposed RT users are: severely injured elderly drivers with unprofitable and profitable risks between 32.8 % and 50.9 %, fatally injured elderly drivers with unprofitable and profitable risks between 43.2 % and 66.1 %, and fatally injured elderly pedestrians with unprofitable and
profitable risks between 93.9%and 86.3%. These facts demand preventive actions for these users on the side of car and road designers and traffic educators as well
