The REVIVE Project: Learning from post-crash response practice across Europe

Post collision care The REVIVE Project Scope of the project • REVIVE is focused on the emergency/rescue chain: from the moment a road collision occurs until the injured person is transferred to a medical facility; • Objective: Improvements in emergency response that can help prevent deaths and life-changing injuries in road collisions; • The emergency response is not getting a fair share of attent. [...] •Development of eCall • Introduction of new post-crash response KPIs •Supporting and promoting new initiatives and research REVIVE Synthesis Report •For those in the road safety community, i.e. [...] •Designed to be an introduction to the topics involved •Follows the steps that take place between a collision occurring and being reported, through to a victim being transferred into a medical facility. [...] Recommendations: For the European Union •Mandate eCall for all remaining vehicle types •Consider linking eCall to the rescue information sheets •Develop key performance indicators for post-collision response and emergency care standards in Europe. [...] •Support Member States in collecting numbers of seriously injured according to the MAIS 3+ definition and include numbers of seriously injured in the EU impact assessment of countermeasures.