Turkey’s dangerous roads result in frequent crashes

Turkey’s poor road safety is seeing the country suffer from a high crash rate. There were 307,000 crashes in the first nine months of 2017 in Turkey. These saw 2,700 deaths and 232,000 serious injuries. Over the last four years there were 4 million crashes in Turkey, resulting in 21,000 deaths and 674,000 serious injuries. The data comes from Turkey's General Directorate of Security.
November 10, 2017 Read time: 1 min

Turkey’s poor road safety is seeing the country suffer from a high crash rate.  There were 307,000 crashes in the first nine months of 2017 in Turkey. These saw 2,700 deaths and 232,000 serious injuries. Over the last four years there were 4 million crashes in Turkey, resulting in 21,000 deaths and 674,000 serious injuries. The data comes from Turkey's General Directorate of Security.

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