Paper Title
Methodology For Calculation The Traffic Accidents Costs

Abstract
The road crashes cost the victims social and economic cost. This costs are divided to direct and indirect cost. The countries are suffering from economic loss due to accident�s death and injures. The objective of this paper is estimating the total cost of traffic accidents in Kuwait for the year 2012. Human capital approach (HC) is the adopted method. The human capital approach attempts to estimate the impact of life loss or injury on current and future levels of output. The cost are categorized into three categories: the human cost category, the property damage cost category, and the general traffic accidents cost category. Total cost of traffic accidents in Kuwait for 2012 is 789,401,438 KD. The average traffic accidents cost is 9,121.6 KD/accident. The general crash costs category represent 60.4 % of the total cost. The increase of cost of traffic accidents is mainly related to the Increase of accidents and fatalities. Keywords � Accident Costs, Human Capital Approach, Direct Costs, Indirect Costs and Road Safety