Samenvatting
More than 174.000 people were killed in traffic accidents on roads outside urban areas (hereinafter “ROU areas”) — excluding motorways — in 16 European Union countries between 1999 and 2008. This number represents 54% of all traffic accident fatalities in those countries. Figure 1 shows that fatalities on ROU areas have reduced by 36% over the last decade (from 20.524 in 1999 to 13.150 in 2008), following a similar trend to the total number of fatalities (that has reduced by 34% during the same period). The greatest decrease on ROU areas was recorded in 2008, with a fall of 10,2% compared with 2007. (Author/publisher)