Basic Facts - Car occupants

Car occupants

The Basic Fact Sheet Car Occupants provides accident data for 14 EU countries (EU-15 without Germany) over the period 1996-2005. The fact sheet includes several basic characteristics of fatal road accidents involving car occupants. For example: age and gender of fatalities, type of road, day of the week and time of the day or the month of year.

In this fact sheet car drivers as well as car passengers are discussed. That is why the word 'car occupants' is used. In 2005, 13.771 car occupants were killed in road traffic accidents in the EU-14. This represents 53% of all fatalities in 2005. Of these 13.771 killed car occupants, 9.419 were drivers and 4.349 were passengers (and 3 unknown).

Fact: A reduction of 25% in the number of car driver fatalities is observed during the last decade in the EU-14 countries.

Fact: A reduction of 35% in the number of car passenger fatalities is observed during the last decade in the EU-14 countries.

Fatality rates	Car occupant fatalites as percentage of total number of traffic fatalities