The social costs of road crashes increased from € 27 billion in 2020 to € 33 billion in 2022. This increase is due to an increase in the number of road casualties and inflation in 2020-2022. The last two estimates are significantly higher than previous estimates: € 17 billion in 2018 [6] and € 12.5 in 2009 [7]. The main reason for the higher estimates for 2020 and 2022 is that we used new values for human costs of road deaths and serious injuries as found in the international VALOR research (see the question How do we define the human costs of road crashes?). For the Netherlands, the new values are more than twice as high as previous estimates of human costs. This greatly affects the total costs, because human costs constitute a large share of the total costs.
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