Road Accident Serious Injuries in Florence

The RASIF study will build a new in-depth investigation team and the relative database on road accidents, studying the dynamics of the events, the causation factors, the injury typologies, the severities and the disabilities. The study will also be focused on the impact that the injuries have on the quality of life of injured people both in the short and in the long terms. In this way the RASIF project will support the diffusion of the in-depth road accident investigation methodology through the Europe and more in particular in the southern, where the investigation team are less spread compared to the northern Europe. RASIF project will contribute to a better gain knowledge on the traffic injuries, and more in particular on the Vulnerable Road Users injured in the metropolitan traffic environment. The overall objectives of the project are:  to gather the road accidents with seriously injured people principally occurred in the urban area;  improving the knowledge of the injuries following by the serious road accidents and their mechanism of injuries;  understand how the vehicle design evolution influences the body injuries;  improvement of new medical procedures for the management of road traumas.