In particular, the recent integration of police data and insurance companies’ data on road traffic accidents has allowed for a standardisation of statistics. Previously, there were tremendous discrepancies between the traffic accident statistics from the National Police Agency (Traffic Accident Management System - TAMS) and those released by the Korea Insurance Development Institute. Just as an example, in 2005, the National Police Agency-registered only 214 171 traffic accidents, whereas the Korea Insurance Development Institute registered 807 253, almost four times higher (Park, 2008).