The positive development is stalled.
so says the Council for Safe Traffic, which has determined the preliminary number of people killed in traffic in 2018.
It writes in a press release.
The preliminary accident rates for the year 2018 show that the 175 lost their lives in traffic accidents last year. It is the same number as in 2017 and eight more than in 2012.
Færdselssikkerhedskommissionen have a goal to reach 120 killed in traffic in 2020, but the Council for Safe Traffic estimate that it will be difficult to reach.
’the Gap between the actual accident rates and the commission’s objective to become still greater. So there is absolutely no reason to clap their hands over development’, writes the Council for Safe Traffic in the press release.
another of the Færdselssikkerhedskommisionens goal for 2020 is to reduce the number of injuries to 2000 people per year. The figures lay in the 2017 3143, but the number from the 2018 is not apparent from the Council for the Safe’s press release.
the Council for Safe Traffic highlights on the positive side, the number of spritulykker has fallen by 60 percent. Gennemsnitsfarten is also decreased, and the same way it goes with the number of fartulykker. Also, several started to run with a bike helmet, so there are just as many cyclists who get serious head injuries.
‘It is still especially for high-speed and inattention is to blame in many accidents. In the future, we will also be challenged by, that there will be higher speed limits on more roads, and that new, small, motorized vehicles as f.ex. skateboards, hoverboards and uniwheels also come out on the roads.’
‘It is all something that challenges road safety’, says the press release from Mogens Kjærgaard Møller, who is the executive director of the Council for Safe Traffic.
the number of road accidents can be reduced, pointing to the Council for Safe Traffic, that there should be more police enforcement of speed, alcohol and inattention. They would also like to have several campaigns aimed at influencing people’s behaviour, exemption of duties on safety equipment and more knowledge to emergency departments about emergencies.
