Road traffic fatalities, injuries and accidents involving injury by location

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Source: UNECE Transport Division Database.

Definition: Killed: Any person who was killed outright or who died within 30 days as a result of the accident.
Injured: Any person, who was not killed, but sustained one or more serious or slight injuries as a result of the accident.

Please note that country footnotes are not always in alphabetical order.
Definition: Motorway: Road, specially designed and built for motor traffic, which does not serve properties bordering on it, and which
a) Is provided, except at special points or temporarily, with separate carriageways for the two directions of traffic, separated from each other either by a dividing strip not intended for traffic or, exceptionally, by other means;
b) Does not cross at level with any road, railway or tramway track, or footpath; and c) Is specially sign posted as a motorway.


For European Union member states, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland the source of data from year 2005 onwards is the CARE database, with the following exceptions: data for Cyprus, Malta and Portugal for 2019; Ireland for 2017-2019; Liechtenstein (injuries only, 2019); and Lithuania for 2018-2019 come from the UNECE/ITF/Eurostat common questionnaire.

Country: Netherlands

Injured persons refer to persons who were hospitalized.

Country: Republic of Moldova

Break in series: From 2007 a regulation has made it compulsory for police inspectors to enter data about road accidents. For years prior this is not the case.

Country: Turkiye

Until year 2015 figures on persons killed include the deaths only at the accident scene; however since year 2015 figures on persons killed also include the deaths within 30 days after the traffic accidents due to related accident and its impacts for people injured and sent to health facilities.

Country: Croatia

Data for motorways are included under items for inside built-up areas and outside built-up areas between 1999 and 2004.

Country: Ireland

Data for motorways are included under items for inside built-up areas and outside built-up areas.

Country: Israel

Data for motorways are included under items for inside built-up areas and outside built-up areas.

Country: Kazakhstan

Data for motorways are included under items for inside built-up areas and outside built-up areas.

Country: Kyrgyzstan

Data for motorways are included under items for inside built-up areas and outside built-up areas.

Country: Portugal

Data refer to continent only.