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This fact sheet considers road safety in the Netherlands from an international perspective. The number of serious road injuries is hard to compare to numbers in other countries, so we almost exclusively focus on the number of road deaths. For the Netherlands, we use the actual number of road deaths provided by Statistics Netherlands; i.e. the numbers adjusted for underregistration.

A safe infrastructure is of vital importance to pedestrians and cyclists. In 2010-2019, 40% of the number of road deaths were pedestrians or cyclists. In 2018, they even made up 69% of the number of seriously injured road users.

A pedestrian fall or collision is only a road crash (pedestrian crash) when a moving vehicle is involved. Between 2010 and 2019, an annual average of 59 pedestrians were killed in road crashes. Between 1999 and 2019, the number of pedestrian road deaths dropped by 62%.

Published: (SWOV) | Gebhard, S.E.; Wijlhuizen, G.J.; Dijkstra, A.
Published: (SWOV) | Schermers, G.; Oude Mulders, J.; Bos, N.M.
Published: | Van den Berghe, W.; Silverans, P.; Vanhove, S.; Boets, S.; Aarts, L.; Bijleveld, F.; Folla, K.; Yannis, G.
Published: (European Road Safety Observatory, European Commission) | Goede, M. de; Stelling, A.
Published: (SWOV) | Bos, N.M.; Bijleveld, F.D.; Aarts, L.T.; Decae, R.J.
Published: (European Road Safety Observatory, European Commission) | Stelling, A.
Published: (Kennisnetwerk SPV) | SWOV; CROW