Basic Facts - Junctions

Junctions

The Basic Fact Sheet Junctions 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 at junctions. For example: area type, mode of transport, person class and gender or the lighting conditions.

More than 65.500 persons were killed in traffic accidents at junctions, in 13 European Union countries between 1996 and 2005 about 21% of all traffic accident fatalities in those countries. In these 13 countries there were 22,4% fewer traffic accident fatalities at junctions in 2005 than in 1996, whereas the total number of fatalities fell by 25,3% over this period.

Fact: The fatality trend at junctions did not follow the overall trend in 2001.

Fact: Over the 13 EU countries, the number of fatalities at junctions fell more in 2005 in rural than in urban areas.

Fatalities at junctions per million inhabitants, 1996 versus 2005