{"id":425196,"date":"2025-04-29T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/04\/29\/calano-gli-incidenti-mortali-sulle-strade-dellunione-europea\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:49:19","slug":"eu-road-fatalities-decreased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/04\/29\/eu-road-fatalities-decreased\/","title":{"rendered":"EU road fatalities decreased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; In 2023, road accidents killed 20,380 people in the EU, a <strong>1.3 percent decrease from 2022<\/strong> (20,652 fatalities). By 2020, the number of fatalities had dropped dramatically to 18,830, thanks to mobility restrictions imposed to combat COVID-19, which affected passenger transport. Although the number of fatalities increased in 2021 and 2022, it did not return to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>This information comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/transport\/database?node_code=tran_sf_road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>road safety data<\/u><\/a> published today by Eurostat.<\/p>\n<h3 id='lowest-road-fatality-rate-in-sweden'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">Lowest road fatality rate in Sweden<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\"><strong>An average of 46 deaths per million inhabitants<\/strong> was recorded in the EU. The lowest road death rates in 2023 were recorded in Sweden (22 deaths per million population), Denmark (27) and Malta (30).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">In contrast, the highest rates were in Bulgaria and Romania (both with 81 deaths per million population), followed by Latvia (75). <strong>In Italy, deaths were 52 per million inhabitants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Incidenti-mortali.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-425193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Incidenti-mortali.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Incidenti-mortali.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Incidenti-mortali-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy, however, above average. Sweden the safest country, Bulgaria and Romania the ones with the most deaths. 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