General introduction : legal change? railway and car accidents and how the law coped with them / Wolfgang Ernst -- The development of traffic liability in England and Wales / Roderick Bagshaw -- The development of traffic liability in France / Anne Guégan-Lécuyer -- The development of traffic liability in Germany / Sebastian Lohsse -- The development of traffic liability in the Netherlands / Scees van Dam and Gerrit van Maanen -- The development of traffic liability in Spain / Isabel González Pacanowksa -- The development of traffic liability in Sweden / Sandra Friberg and Bill W. Dufwa