How many road users were seriously injured in the Netherlands in 2022?

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In 2022, an estimated number of 8,300 road users were seriously injured in the Netherlands.
That number is about 1,500 (over 20%) higher than the 2021 number. The 2022 number of serious road injuries is also slightly higher than was to be expected considering the upward trend through 2019 [1] [2].

In the Netherlands, serious road injuries are defined as persons admitted to hospital for road injuries with a maximum severity of 3 or more on the medical injury scale AIS (MAIS3+; for the complete definition, see the question What is the official definition of a serious road injury?). Through 2020, hospitalised road injuries with a moderate injury severity (MAIS2) were also included in the number of serious road injuries. The MAIS2 injury group amounted to 19,400 casualties in 2022, again more than 20% higher than the 2021 number, and a higher number than was to be expected considering the trend through 2019 [1] [2].

Other sources also mention road injuries with an injury severity that could be considered serious, but for which different definitions are used. According to these sources, in 2022, 80,000 road injuries with an injury severity of MAIS2 or higher paid a visit to an accident & emergency (A&E) department [3] and 15,765 road injuries were acute clinical A&E admissions of which 2,304 had multiple injuries [4]. Most of the 8,300 serious and 19,400 moderate road injuries are part of these two major groups of A&E injuries.

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Serious road injuries in the Netherlands

In 2022, the number of serious road injuries in the Netherlands was estimated at 8,300. That number is about 1,500 (over 20%) higher than the 2021 Meer

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