The Sustainable Safety measures in the Netherlands, taken between 1998 and 2007, have resulted in a 30% decrease in road deaths in 2007 compared to the expected number of road deaths had these measures not been taken (See also Figure 5). This concerns a total of 1600 to 1700 road deaths in the abovementioned period [55]. This number primarily involves road deaths in motorized traffic crashes: the measures taken had primarily focused on these crashes. In that same period, risk also decreased, from a 2.6% average decrease to a 5.8% average decrease per year. The benefits of the Sustainable Safety policy in this period proved to be twice to four times as high as the costs [56].
Figure 5. Development in registered number of road deaths (in population over 12 years of age) in relation to the expected trend had the existing policy been continued (so without Sustainable Safety) [56].
