The Lima metropolitan area police are creating a database of traffic crashes based on EMBARQ Andino's format in Arequipa. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage.

Lima and Callao’s Transport and Road Safety Council will use a format developed by EMBARQ Andino to create a similar database of traffic crashes for the Lima metropolitan area.

Once validated and modified, the format will be used by the Transport Council to collect information from traffic crash reports from 108 police stations in Lima and Callao since 2006. With this information, officials will be able to create a database of traffic crash data to better formulate and implement methods of traffic crash intervention and prevention.

The database model was originally developed for the city of Arequipa, as part of the U.N.’s Decade of Action for Road Safety. In June, EMBARQ Andino hosted a meeting of officials from various health and road safety institutions in Arequipa to implement the first phase of the city's action plan for improved road safety. At that meeting, the participating institutions agreed to form an integrated database of traffic crashes and injuries.

Two of the meeting participants, Joel Collazos of the Ministry of Health and Dr. Miguel Malo of the Pan American Health Organization, returned to Lima and agreed that the metropolitan area should also implement the police format used by EMABRQ Andino in Arequipa.

To assist with its adoption, Sybil Settlemyre, EMBARQ Andino’s project coordinator, traveled to Lima and trained Lima and Callao’s Transport Council on the use and implementation of the standardized format for police traffic crash reporting.