Number of fatalities on roads goes up by 2% y/y in Poland
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In 2018 there were 25,100 people killed on the roads in EU countries. In Poland, where the roads still belong to the most dangerous in the EU, the number of victims after decades of decline has increased again, said Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc.
On average 49 people per million citizens died on the roads of the EU in 2018. Although the situation is improving slightly, the zero casualties target is still very far away. In 2010-2018, the number of victims dropped by 26 percent in the EU. However, there was only a 1-percent difference between 2017 and 2018. Poland scores 5th from the bottom in this ranking. While in 2010-2018 the total fall in the number of accident victims in the country was 26 percent, the number of deadly victims went up by 2 percent from 2017 to 2018.
