A single road death is one too many.
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A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission I think the best way to prevent road deaths is simple, deprioritize the car and individual transport. Less cars is less accidents, and where you still have cars you slow them down and frustrate the drivers as much as possible. One good way to do that (and reach your climate goals on top!) is just investing heavily in public transport instead of roads and cars. We won't win the "EV wars" with China anyway, if you wish to go green you will not beat their EVs. Just builld trains, we're good at that here still regardless.
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A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission Fewer people on roads = fewer road deaths.
But try traveling from Germany to Brussels, one of the seats of the European Commission, by train. Half the time you will miss your connection and are not allowed to continue with the Eurostar without buying an extra Eurostar ticket.
This kind of friction pushes people in cars on the roads and could be solved by policy with a European compensation structure for transporting people who missed connections between national train operators.
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@EUCommission Fewer people on roads = fewer road deaths.
But try traveling from Germany to Brussels, one of the seats of the European Commission, by train. Half the time you will miss your connection and are not allowed to continue with the Eurostar without buying an extra Eurostar ticket.
This kind of friction pushes people in cars on the roads and could be solved by policy with a European compensation structure for transporting people who missed connections between national train operators.
@haagch @EUCommission Totally agree, situated in a relatively central location, having reliable and convenient train options in Germany is a must.
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@Tuuktuuk da ich da nicht lebe kann ich dir es nicht sagen ich weiß nur das es in Deutschland bei Tempo 50 in Ortschaften es halt oft noch zu tödlichen Unfällen kommt und man muss auch die Einhaltung kontrollieren
aber gegen Frage würde Tempo 300 in Ortschaften die Zahl deiner meinung nach senken -
@aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission
Alright, so better rely on your pub talk instead of scientific research?! Germany is the only EU country w/o a general speed limit. As per road safety statistics 2024, with 33 road deaths/million, GER is well below the avg. of 45 deaths/million, although having a higher than avg. population density. How do you get to the conclusion that a speed limit in GER is the main factor for road safety in EU?
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/road-safety-statistics-2024-progress-continues-amid-persistent-challenges-2025-10-17_en -
A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission What is happening in Estonia?
Edit: Ok apparently the dataset is so small that statistical fluctuations are not drowned out. -
A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission Spain among the countries that goes up, to no one's surprise.
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@csepp Nono, BIGGER cars. That can hold 40-70 people. With professional drivers. We can call it BRING US SAFELY. Or BUS for short.
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@aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission
Alright, so better rely on your pub talk instead of scientific research?! Germany is the only EU country w/o a general speed limit. As per road safety statistics 2024, with 33 road deaths/million, GER is well below the avg. of 45 deaths/million, although having a higher than avg. population density. How do you get to the conclusion that a speed limit in GER is the main factor for road safety in EU?
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/road-safety-statistics-2024-progress-continues-amid-persistent-challenges-2025-10-17_en@wsmyr @aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission, by the classic "trust be bro" metric
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A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission, I agree with the infrastructure and car safety improvements. We need that.
Sadly, #ireland is slashing the speed limits within cities from 50 to 30km/h, drastically killing productivity and heavily inflating prices for goods and services. The actual problem of low quality roads and, funny enough, very little education is not being addressed.
We need a common solution for Europe as a whole that actually addresses the issues and not on slogans or this week's "feelings".
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A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission Reduce cars. I want more and safe bikelanes and reliable, cheap and crossborder public transport.
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@aus_der_UBahn @wsmyr @EUCommission, according to WHO data, death per capita suggests that speed is not the only factor. For example, deaths in Ireland is way higher than Germany despite the Autobahn. It is road safety standards and education that is the main driver
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A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission maybe the solution to reducing them further would be, hear me out, encouraging poublic transportation? Shocking, right? Please do something about it, especially in eastern europe. In romania and bulgaria the situation of public transportation outside 2-3 major cities is very dire.
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@aus_der_UBahn @ppulfer @EUCommission Interesting study! However: "If a speed limit of 120 km/h were applied to all currently unrestricted sections of German autobahns, it would […] save 58 lives each year." This corresponds to a ~2.1% decrease of GER road deaths - considering that this number has decreased by 9% within 5 years without any introduced speed limit, I think there is not much substance to this measure, especially in EU context.
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@aus_der_UBahn @ppulfer @EUCommission This isn’t - your former statement was
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A single road death is one too many.
In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.
Progress is real but not enough.
To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.
We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.
Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.
@EUCommission Would be interesting if you also showed the actual yearly deaths so one can see how Swedens -4% on our around 15 deaths per year compares to the other countries. Also, we include walking, cycling, snow mobile, moped, bike and tractor in that statistic. Do the rest?
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@aus_der_UBahn @Tuuktuuk @EUCommission I believe lowering speed limits has - beyond lowering road deaths - other consequences. Time spent on roads is an economic factor. That’s why it is indeed a political issue, not a knowledge issue.
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@Tuuktuuk @EUCommission Don't want to spoil the surprise for you. Just go, visit south Italy and drive around there
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