Basic Facts - Urban areas

Urban areas

The Basic Fact Sheet Urban areas 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 in urban areas. For example: age and gender, type of road user, junction and day and month.

In 2005, 8.579 persons were killed in urban road traffic accidents in the EU-14. This is 32,9% of all traffic accident fatalities in 2005. In the last decade, urban road fatalities have reduced by more than one quarter (27,1%), while the total number of fatalities has reduced slightly less (25,3%).

Fact: The number of fatalities in urban road accidents has fallen since 1996. The percentage of all fatalities that occurred within urban areas, however, remained around 33%.

Fact: The percentage of the elderly fatalities is much higher inside urban areas.

Number of urban road fatalities and proportion on total fatalities in EU-14, 1996-2005