Road traffic safety: status and recommendations for better legal regulation

Cestovni promet predstavlja bitnu ulogu u aktivnom životu ljudi te obavlja transport tereta ili ljudi s jedne lokacije na drugu. Bez modernog cestovnog prometa nezamislivo je da društvo normalno funkcionira. Sigurnost cestovnog prometa u Republici Hrvatskoj svake godine bilježi trend boljih rezultata. Smrtnost sudionika cestovnog prometa u 2020. godini je najmanja dosad od osamostaljenja Republike Hrvatske. Tema ovog diplomskog rada stoga je sigurnost prometa na cestama uz prikaz stanja i preporuka za bolju pravnu regulaciju. Prikazani su osnovni pojmovi teme i podjele cestovnog prometa. Uz to, pobliže su obrađeni cesta, vozilo i čovjek kao osnovni čimbenici sigurnosti prometa. Nadalje u radu, opisuje se stanje sigurnosti prometa na cestama u Republici Hrvatskoj, iznose se statistički podaci o prometnim nesrećama, navode glavni uzroci prometnih nesreća te se iznosi smjer i ciljevi šestog Nacionalnog plana sigurnosti za predstojeće razdoblje od 2021.-2030. godine. U zadnjem dijelu rada obrađene su izmjene Zakona o sigurnosti prometa na cestama, analiziraju se prijedlozi izmjene aktualnog Zakona o sigurnosti prometa na cestama te su navedeni europski propisi koje Republika Hrvatska primjenjuje na prometne nesreće, tj. oni kojima je cilj reducirati broj smrtno nastradalih u prometu na cestama.Road traffic plays an important role in people's active lives and transports goods or people from one location to another. Without modern road traffic, it is inconceivable that society functions normally. Every year, road traffic safety in the Republic of Croatia records a trend of better results. The mortality of road traffic participants in 2020 is the lowest since the independence of the Republic of Croatia. The topic of this thesis is therefore the safety of road traffic with a presentation of the situation and recommendations for better legal regulation. The basic concepts of the topic and division of road traffic are presented. In addition, the road, vehicle and man are more closely treated as basic factors of traffic safety. Furthermore, the paper describes the state of road safety in the Republic of Croatia, presents statistics on traffic accidents, states the main causes of traffic accidents and presents the direction and objectives of the Sixth National Safety Plan for the upcoming period 2021-2030. years. The last part of the paper deals with amendments to the Road Traffic Safety Act, analyzes proposals for amendments to the current Road Traffic Safety Act and lists European regulations applied by the Republic of Croatia to traffic accidents, i.e. those aimed at reducing the number of fatalities on the roads