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On the 8th of March, the Commission published preliminary figures on road fatalities for 2023. Despite some progress since the baseline year of 2019(1), few Member States are on track to meet the target of halving the number of road deaths by 2030. Contrasting picture across Member StatesEU-…
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In 2022, road crashes in the Member States of the European Union claimed about 20,634 lives and left more than 1.13 million people injured. The new statistical report of the European Road Safety Observatory presents a wide range of statistical tables containing road safety data from the 27 EU…
Nearly a quarter of the 1.19 million annual road traffic deaths in the world are motorcyclists and other powered two and three wheeled vehicle riders. The World Health Organization (WHO) has therefore launched the first global technical advisory group for this group of road users to help shape laws…
ESRA (E-Survey of Road users’ Attitudes) is a joint initiative of road safety organisations all over the world. The aim is to collect and analyse comparable data on road safety performance, and in particular on road safety culture and behaviour. The survey contains questions on speeding, driving…
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…