UNIVERSITY OF PITESTI SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN Faculty of Mechanics and Technology AUTOMOTIVE series, year XXIV, no. 28 Analyses and statistics on the frequency and the incidence of traffic accidents within Dolj County Oana OŢĂT, Gabriel MARINESCU, Victor OŢĂT University of Craiova, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Calea Bucuresti str, no. 107, 200512, Craiova, Dolj, Romania Corresponding author’s e-mail: otatoana@yahoo.com Article history Received 10.07.2017 Accepted 24.09.2017 DOI https://doi.org/10.26825/bup.ar.2018.001 Abstract. Within the entire territory of the EU Member States, traffic accidents cause yearly over 37,000 deaths and about 1.2 million injured, as well as damages estimated, annually, at 145 billion Euros. Under the circumstances, a series of strategies and measures have been adopted over the past two decades in order to reduce the number of victims caused by traffic accidents, hence preventing some of the worst consequences. Aiming at improving road traffic safety, joint efforts have been carried out to estimate and identify those factors leading to the occurrence of accidents, in order to adopt and implement the most appropriate measures to reduce the risk of collisions. The dynamics of a traffic accident is different from one case to another; thus, safety measures can only be enforced following in-depth analyses on the occurrence of traffic accidents. The main objective of our research study is to design and develop an analysis model on the occurrence and the circumstances leading to traffic accidents, considering at the same time some main characteristics of the driver, such as age, gender, etc. 1. Introduction Throughout the territory of the European Union Member States, traffic accidents cause each year over 37,000 deaths and about 1.2 million injuries, as well as damages estimated, annually, at 145 billion Euros. Within this context, a series of strategies and measures have been adopted in the past decades to reduce the number of victims caused by traffic accidents, aimed also at preventing some of the worst consequences. The establishment of a European database on the incidence of traffic accidents has secured a higher flexibility and a maximum potential with regard to the analysis of the information contained within the system, and, opened up a whole range of new possibilities in the field of accidents’ analysis [1].