Basic Facts - Pedestrians

Pedestrians

The Basic Fact Sheet Pedestrians 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 among pedestrians. For example: age and gender, light conditions or the seasonality.

In the last decade, pedestrian fatalities have reduced by 36,8%, while the total number of fatalities has reduced by one quarter (25,3%). Road safety measures implemented in the last 10 years may thus have considerably improved pedestrian fatality numbers.

Fact: In 2005, nearly 3.700 pedestrians died from road traffic accidents in 14 European countries. This corresponds to 14% of road traffic fatalities in these countries.

Fact: The fatality rate of pedestrians at least 80 years old is ten times the rate for children

Fact: The proportion of pedestrian fatalities who are female is higher than the overall proportion.

Pedestrian fatalities per million inhabitants by country, 2005
* Data from 2004 ** Data from 2003 *** Data from 2002	Source: CARE Database / EC Date of query: December 2007 Source of population data: EUROSTAT