Cyclists are vulnerable in traffic and constitute the only road user group where the number of fatalities has not declined since 2010. In 2022, around 2,000 road deaths among cyclists in Europe were reported by the police. This means that one in ten recorded fatalities in traffic is a cyclist. Furthermore, the share of serious injuries in crashes involving a cyclist did not decline: their relative proportion increased from 7% in 2010 to 9% in 2019, and this is in reality probably much greater due to under-reporting.
The European Road Safety Observatory dedicated a new thematic report on cyclists to further explain these statistics, the causes and the potential protective measures.
The European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO) of the European Commission provides reliable and comparable data on road crashes, in-depth analysis and information on road safety trends, practices and policies in the EU. One of the outputs of ERSO are the thematic reports. The purpose of these reports is to give road safety practitioners and the general public an overview of the most important research questions and results.
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