Bulgaria, Romania top EU road death rates in 2024

ByEnigma 808

Road traffic accidents claimed 19,940 lives across the European Union in 2024, but Sweden recorded the lowest fatality rate at 20 deaths per million residents. Denmark followed with 24 deaths per million, while Romania and Bulgaria posted the highest rates at 78 and 74 per million, respectively. The figures represent a 2 percent decline from 2023 levels, but progress toward the EU goal of halving road deaths by 2030 remains slow.

Data for the first half of 2025 show varied outcomes among member states, with Greece, the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia demonstrating reductions in fatalities. Apostolos Tsitsikostas, the commissioner for sustainable transport and tourism, said the nearly 20,000 deaths remain unacceptable. The statistics emerged one day after three Bulgarian teenagers died in a crash involving a driver who had obtained his license just 24 hours earlier.

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