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The paper is an attempt to discover some specific aspects that characterise road safety in Romania, in order to identify the most feasible and effective actions towards safety improvement. From this point of view, measures must be taken first of all in built-up areas, where the large majority of the accidents with personal injury (about 93%) and of the fatalities (about 87%) occur. Another objective is the reduction of the accident severity, which is one of the biggest in Europe. The paper presents some proposals in order to improve traffic safety. (A)