Italian crash rate reducing

An in-depth analysis of crash statistics from Italy shows that road safety is improving in the country, albeit slowly. The Italian National Statistiscs Institute has published the yearly report (2014) covering road crashes. The data reveals that in 2014 there were 1777,031 crashes involving injuries. This represents a drop of 2.5% compared with the figures for 2013. In all 3,381 people were killed in road crashes in Italy during 2014, a drop of 0.6% compared with 2013. The number of serious injuries from ro
May 24, 2016 Read time: 1 min
An in-depth analysis of crash statistics from Italy shows that road safety is improving in the country, albeit slowly. The Italian National Statistiscs Institute has published the yearly report (2014) covering road crashes. The data reveals that in 2014 there were 1777,031 crashes involving injuries. This represents a drop of 2.5% compared with the figures for 2013. In all 3,381 people were killed in road crashes in Italy during 2014, a drop of 0.6% compared with 2013. The number of serious injuries from road crashes also dropped 2.7% compared with the figures for 2013, to 251,147 in 2014.

The most serious crashes were on non-urban roads, with an average of 4.63 killed/100 crashes. On urban roads the average was 1.13 killed/100 crashes, while on major highways the average was 3.14 killed/100 crashes.

The number of road deaths on highways fell 10.6% compared with the data for 2013 and by 3.8% for non-urban roads. However the number for those killed in crashes on urban roads rose by 5.4%.

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