[sustran] Latest News on Road Crashes is Depressing
Eric Britton
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Fri Nov 21 19:29:49 JST 2008
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Subject: Press Release: The Latest News on Road Crashes is Depressing
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Press Release
Paris, 20 November 2008
The Latest News on Road Crashes is Depressing
International Transport Forum Presents the Latest Available Data on Road
Crashes
"The latest news on road crashes is depressing" said the Secretary General
of the International Transport Forum Jack Short today in Paris, as he
presented the most recent data from the International Transport Forum.
Over 150 000 people lost their lives and a further 6 million people were
injured in road crashes in the 44 countries of the Forum that reported data
for 2007.
Road deaths per capita vary by a factor of almost 8 across the countries.
"This is what is most depressing", said Short, "the measures and policies to
reduce crashes and fatalities are well known. If all countries had fatality
rates like Japan, Norway, UK or the Netherlands more than 80 000 lives would
be saved".
Looking regionally, Central and Eastern Europe both show significant
increases in fatalities. Rapid motorisation is a factor in the region but
the figures show "the lack of continuous and determined political effort" in
these countries, according to Short.
In Western Europe, the picture is more mixed but the recent decline in
fatalities has slowed and the 1.2% decline in 2007 fatalities is the
smallest for the last 5 years. Moreover, in Western Europe the number of
casualties and the number of injury accidents have increased "a sure sign
that we are not making our road system safer" said the Secretary General.
Better news comes from countries outside Europe where there have been small
reductions in fatalities, casualties and injury accidents in the major
countries. The US reduced both injury accidents and casualties for the
seventh consecutive year; Japan's striking improvement makes it now the best
performing country in the International Transport Forum with 45 fatalities
per million inhabitants.
In Western Europe the number of road traffic fatalities declined in 2007 by
1.2%. However this decrease was accompanied by a rise in both the number of
casualties (+1.4%) and the number of accidents (+5.6%). These data are
strongly influenced by the performance of Turkey which has shown significant
increases in all three indicators. In 2007, only the United Kingdom and
Greece recorded drops in the number of fatalities, casualties and injury
accidents. At the same time Denmark, Finland and Sweden have seen their road
fatalities increase by 32.7%, 13.1% and 5.8% respectively.
In Central and Eastern Europe the number of road fatalities increased by
6.4% in 2007. This result is all the more disappointing since the region
recorded at the same time strong increases in the number of casualties
(+6.4%) and number of accidents (+6.7%). With the exception of Bulgaria,
Estonia, Hungary and Lithuania, which show a drop in road fatalities,
casualties and injury accidents, all other countries have been confronted
with a rise in the number of fatalities on their roads. Countries like the
Czech Republic and Romania saw their fatalities increase by 15% and 12.8%
respectively.
In 2007, the Community of Independent States (CIS) recorded a strong rise of
its road fatalities by 8.2%, breaking the positive signs recorded in the
last few years. With the exception of Russia (+1.8%) the number of persons
killed on roads increased strongly in all countries, and particularly in
Ukraine with +38.1%.
As far as non European members of the ITF are concerned, they continue to
show encouraging results in 2007, recording a drop of 3.1% in the number of
fatalities, 2.8% in the number of casualties and 3.3% in the number of
injury accidents. Only Mexico and New Zealand are showing a strong rise in
road fatalities (+10% and 7.9% respectively). The number of casualties and
injury accidents are also increasing in these two countries.
Behind these global figures there are significant variations from one
country to another, as the following tables show:
Road fatalities in 2007
Western Europe
Number of fatalities
2007/2006 %
Austria
691
-5.3
Belgium
1 067
-0.2
Denmark
406
32.7
Finland
380
13.1
France
4 620
-1.9
Germany
4 949
-2.8
Greece
1 578
-4.8
Iceland
15
-51.6
Luxembourg
43
19.4
Malta
12
9.1
Netherlands
791
-2.5
Norway
233
-3.7
Portugal
854
0.5
Spain
3 823
-6.8
Sweden
471
5.8
Switzerland
384
3.8
Turkey
5 004
8.0
United Kingdom
3 059
-7.2
Total
28 380
-1.2
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Central and Eastern Europe
Number of fatalities
2007/2006 %
Albania
384
38.6
Bulgaria
1 006
-3.5
Croatia
619
0.8
Czech Republic
1 222
15.0
Estonia
196
-3.9
FYROM
173
23.6
Hungary
1 232
-5.4
Latvia
419
2.9
Lithuania
740
-2.6
Poland
5 583
6.5
Romania
2 794
12.8
Serbia
962
6.9
Slovakia
661
8.7
Slovenia
293
11.8
Total
16 284
6.4
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CIS countries
Number of fatalities
2007/2006 %
Azerbaijan
1 107
7.8
Georgia
737
9.2
Moldova
464
21.5
Russia
33 308
1.8
Ukraine
9 481
38.1
Total
45 097
8.2
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Other ITF
Number of fatalities
2007/2006 %
Australia
1 616
1.1
Canada
2 729
-5.6
Japan
5 744
-9.6
Korea
6 166
-2.5
Mexico
5 398
10.0
New Zealand
422
7.9
United States
41 059
-3.9
Total
63 134
-3.1
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Aggregates
Number of fatalities
2007/2006 %
OECD1
106 234
-1.8
EU2
42 924
0.2
ITF1,3
158 929
1.3
1) For Italy and Ireland, the number of fatalities refers to the year 2006.
2) Cyprus is not included.
3) Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia, Montenegro, are not included.
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More detailed information on latest trends will be available on the Forum
website in December 2008 (www.internationaltransportforum.org
<http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/> ) and in the forthcoming
publication =93Trends in the Transport Sector, 1970-2007=94. This informati=
on
may be reproduced, provided the ITF is quoted as the source.
Contact: Michael Zirpel
Director of Communications
International Transport Forum
Tel. +(33-1) 45 24 95 96
michael.zirpel at oecd.org
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