Slovakian safety slides negatively

Slovakia has seen an increase in road crash deaths during 2014 compared with 2013. The country saw fatalities increase from 223 in 2013 to 258 in 2014. However the level of fatalities may be a statistical blip in that reported road crashes actually fell by 300 to 13,286 in all. Particular cause for concern was observed in the Nitra Region, which saw road crash deaths increase a shocking 132% and hit 51, the highest in Slovakia. Meanwhile the Trencin Region recorded the lowest road fatalities. Speeding on th
January 9, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Slovakia has seen an increase in road crash deaths during 2014 compared with 2013. The country saw fatalities increase from 223 in 2013 to 258 in 2014. However the level of fatalities may be a statistical blip in that reported road crashes actually fell by 300 to 13,286 in all. Particular cause for concern was observed in the Nitra Region, which saw road crash deaths increase a shocking 132% and hit 51, the highest in Slovakia. Meanwhile the Trencin Region recorded the lowest road fatalities. Speeding on the country’s class I roads was a cause of 112 deaths in 2014, an increase of 29 from the previous year. Despite the increase in road deaths in 2014, Slovakia is still on target to lower its casualty rate overall in line with EU targets. The country aims to reduce the annual road fatality rate to less than 175 by 2020.

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