Road traffic accidents remain to be a leading cause of death worldwide with nearly 1.3 million fatalities each year (WHO Global status report on road safety 2018) [1]. To develop safety systems according to real-world challenges, harmonized information is needed. Therefore, vehicle and road traffic safety experts are constantly looking for real-world data to answer the open challenges and to ultimately reach the “Vision Zero”.
Numerous data on road traffic accidents exist and can be split into national and in-depth databases. The latter are characterized by a significantly lower number of cases then the national databases but a substantially higher level of detail and enable a microscopic view on the accident scenario.