The Road Safety Administration provides the public with false data on road accidents, injuries, and fatalities. The statistics for 2016 are significantly distorted in an understated manner, and this distortion is systemic and widespread. As a result, Ukraine’s official data on road accidents in 2016 cannot be trusted at all. The real number of road deaths last year is unknown and may exceed 5,000 people instead of the stated three.
These are the conclusions of a selective verification of official accident statistics in Ukraine in 2016, conducted by volunteers of the non-governmental organization “Vision Zero”, who collected two sets of evidence through open access tools. As a result of a selective verification using OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques, volunteers found 14 pieces of evidence that the accident statistics published by the Road Traffic Safety Administration (RTSA) in 2016 do not correspond to reality. In addition, a selective reconciliation of RTSA data with data from regional police departments was conducted using the information request mechanism. This reconciliation provided three additional pieces of evidence that the RTSA data are biased towards understatement.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with our report and its annexes. We would be glad to hear comments and information about any inaccuracies you may have noticed. http://www.slideshare.net/viktoza/ss-72173641
You can download PDF files of the report and 18 appendices from the links below:
Main report file (6 pages): Fake_Road_Safety_Statistics_in_Ukraine_Report
Appendices: 1_Sources of Official Data
2_Kharkivska_September_2016
3_Kharkivska__October_2016
4_Kharkivska_November_2016
5_Kharkivska_December_2016
6_Ternopilska_October_2016
7_Khersonska_December_2016
8_Kirovohradska_December_2016
9_Khmelnytska_September2016
10_Khmelnytska_October2016
11_Khmelnytska_December2016
12_Zakarpatska_October_2016
13_Transcarpathia_November_2016
14_Zakarpatska_December_2016
15_Chernivetska_September_2016
16_GUNP_Kyivska_oblast
17_GUNP_Odeska_oblast
18_GUNP_Zakarpatska_oblast