Fatalities and injuries in road traffic accidents by category of user and age group

Source: UNECE Transport Division Database.

Definitions

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.

Driver: Any person who drives a motor vehicle or other vehicle (including a cycle), or who guides cattle, singly or in herds, or flocks, or draught, pack or saddle animals on a road.

Passenger: Any person, other than the driver, who is in or on a vehicle.

Pedestrian: Any person other than a driver or a passenger according to the above definitions. Persons pushing or pulling a child?s carriage, a bath chair or invalid chair, or any other small vehicle without an engine, or pushing a cycle or moped, and handicapped persons travelling in invalid chairs propelled by such persons or moving at walking pace shall be treated as pedestrians.

Road vehicle: A vehicle running on wheels and intended for use on roads.

Motor vehicle: Any power-driven vehicle which is normally used for carrying persons or goods by road or for drawing, on the road, vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods. This term embraces trolleybuses, that is to say, vehicles connected to an electric conductor and not rail-borne. It does not cover vehicles, such as agricultural tractors, which are only incidentally used for carrying persons or goods by road or for drawing, on the road, vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods.

Power driven vehicle: Any self propelled road vehicle, other than a moped and a rail-borne vehicle.

Cycle: Any road vehicle which has at least two wheels and is propelled solely by the muscular energy of the person(s) on that vehicle, in particular by means of a pedal system, lever or handle (e.g. bicycles, tricycles, quadricycles and invalid carriages).

Moped: Any two-wheeled or three-wheeled road vehicle which is fitted with an internal combustion engine having a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cc. (3.05 cu. in.) and a maximum design speed not exceeding 50 km (30 miles) per hour.

Motor cycle: Two-wheeled road motor vehicle with or without side-car, including motor scooter, or three-wheeled road motor vehicle not exceeding 400 kg (900 lb.) unleaded weight. This term does not include mopeds.

Passenger car: Road motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle, intended for the transport of passengers and seating not more than nine persons (including the driver). The term passenger car therefore covers taxis and hired vehicles, provided that they have fewer than ten seats.

Motor coach or bus: Passenger road motor vehicle, seating more than nine persons (including the driver).

Trolleybus: A passenger road vehicle, seating more than nine persons (including the driver), which is connected to electric conductors and which is not rail-borne.

Tramcar: A passenger road vehicle, seating more than nine persons (including the driver), which is connected to electric conductors and which is rail borne.

Please note that country footnotes are not always in alphabetical order.

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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: Albania

Included with motorcycles, if not available.

Country: Ireland

Included with motorcycles, if not available.

Country: Poland

Included with motorcycles, if not available.

Country: Georgia

''<6 years'' refer to ''0-7 years''. ''10-14 years'' refer to ''8-16 years''. ''21-24 years'' refer to ''17-25 years''. ''25-64 years'' refer to ''26-60 years''. ''65 years and over'' refer to ''more than 60 years''.Notes: The data on accidents by age is provided for the accidents registered by the Patrol Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia; The data of the category - Drivers and passengers of motorcycles - includes data for the drivers of motorcycles and mopeds.

Country: Portugal

Data refer to continent only.

Country: Republic of Moldova

From 2008, breakdown by category of user does not sum to total as unknown category of user is not reported.

Country: Turkiye

Data by age group cover accidents only at Police responsibility area for years between 2000-2011 whereas for years between 2012-2015 data cover both Police and Gendermarie responsibility area. 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. 6 to 9 years refers to less than 10 years old.

Country: United States

Sum by category of user is not equal to total as unknown category of user is not shown.

Country: Uzbekistan

Less than 6 years refers to less than 7 years. 10 to 14 years refers to 8 to 15 years.