On the contribution to improved road safety, one should also be aware that it is difficult to isolate and allocate the reduction in the number of road victims to the use of, and subsequent impacts from, the RISM procedures. None the less, evidence indicates that those EU countries not having the procedures before the Directive was implemented are, on average, less performing in terms of road safety. Therefore, to the extent the better performance of the other countries is due to implementation of the procedures, their application in the former can be potentially beneficial.