What are the definitions of road traffic safety and road traffic accidents?

Traffic safety refers to the state that personal injury or property loss can be controlled at an acceptable level in the process of traffic activities, and road traffic accidents refer to incidents in which vehicles cause personal injury or property loss due to faults or accidents on the road. Traffic safety means that the possibility of people or things suffering losses is acceptable, and if this possibility exceeds the acceptable level, it is unsafe. At the same time, it also stipulates the basic elements that constitute a traffic accident, such as it must be man-made, it must cause certain harmful results, and it must happen on the road. As a dynamic and open system, the safety of road traffic system is not only restricted by the internal factors of the system, but also interfered by the external environment of the system, which is closely related to the environment of people, vehicles and roads. Unreliable, unbalanced and unstable factors in the system may lead to conflicts and contradictions, resulting in unsafe factors or unsafe conditions.

legal ground

"Regulations for the Implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China" Article 93 The traffic administrative department of the public security organ shall make a traffic accident determination within 10 days from the date of on-site investigation. If inspection and appraisal are needed, a traffic accident confirmation shall be made within 5 days from the date when the inspection and appraisal results are determined.