The European Commission’s Eurostat has released this Statistics in Focus that explores the number of fatalities per million passenger cars registered both in the European Union and candidate countries. The report also explores information concerning the number of passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants, the share of fatalities by type of road, and the most dangerous and the safest regions in Europe. Among the EU-25 Member States and at national level, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia display the highest number of persons killed in road accidents per million registered passenger cars – for the Candidate Countries, this is Turkey. Malta and Sweden display the lowest ratios. North-West European urban regions are the safest as regards the number of fatalities in road accidents per million registered passenger cars. In 2004, the German urban region of Bremen scored best with 23 fatalities per million passenger cars. Many capital regions (like Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm and Brussels) are among the safest in the EU. Passenger car density in a region is inversely proportional to the number of fatalities in road accidents: the higher the passenger car density, the ‘safer’ the region. During the last ten years, considerable progress in road safety was achieved in all countries for which data is available; a West-East divide however remains along with a less noticeable North-South gradient. (Author/publisher) Further information:EUROSTAT Website http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,1&_dad=portal… Home page/Transport/Data, Transport, Transport - Horizontal view, Regional transport statistics.
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