20.11.2016: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims - Slightly over 26 000 victims of road accidents in the EU in 2015 - Fewer than half as many as 20 years ago

Last year, 26 100 people died in road accidents in the European Union (EU i). While this represented a small increase compared with 2014 (+0.5%), the trend over the last 20 years has been a fall in the number of road traffic victims in the EU. Compared with 1995, the number of road fatalities has been reduced by almost 38 000 persons (-59.2%), from nearly 64 000 to slightly over 26 000 in 2015.

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STAT/16/3822