1 Pattern recognition and classification of fatal traffic accidents in Israel: a neural network approach Carlo Giacomo PRATO * Department of Transport Technical University of Denmark Bygningstorvet 116 Vest, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Victoria GITELMAN Ran Naor Road Safety Research Center Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion Campus, Haifa 32000, Israel Shlomo BEKHOR Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion Campus, Haifa 32000, Israel * corresponding author Telephone: +45.45256595, Fax: +45.45936593 E-mail: cgp@transport.dtu.dk