(Finance) – “2022 is characterized by the return to mobility and by the greater use of individual means of transport, after the forced suspension of travel and travel due to thesanitary emergency. The mobility rate, in fact, rose in the first half of 2022 to 80.9%, from 75% in 2021 and 69% in 202011. In 2022, with the recovery of mobility, road accidents began to grow again: there were 165,889 accidents (+9.2% compared to the previous year), 3,159 deaths (+9.9%) and 223,475 injuries (+9.2%)”. These are the numbers presented byIstat at the hearing for interventions on the matter of road safety and delegation for the revision of the highway code.
“The increments compared to 2021, they are concentrated above all in the January-July period, months in which in the previous year the measures to limit traffic and traffic were still in force travel. Starting from the month of August, there is a decrease in injuries and accidents compared to 2021, while for victims there are still increases in the months of August, October and December – explained Cristina Freguja
Director of the Central Directorate for Social Statistics and Welfare of Istat -. In comparison with the 2019 however, a decrease is observed accidents and gods wounded (-3.7% and -7.4% respectively), while the number of victims remains almost stable (-0.4%).
“In the 2022 the dead within 24 hours of the incidents are 2,651while counting each other 508 deaths from the second to the thirtieth day after the event. Compared to the previous year, victims increase for all road users, except cyclists and truck occupants,” he added.
“According to the estimates preliminariesin the semester January-June 2023, there is a decrease limited of the number of road accidents with injuries to people compared to the same period of 2022 (-1.0%, 79,124) and of injuries (-0.9%, 106,493); for victims within the thirtieth day the decline is slightly more marked (-2.5%, 1,384). In comparison with the first six months of 2019, there was a drop in road accidents of -5.4%, -9.0% for injuries and -9.8% for deaths”, Freguja then underlined .
“Compared to the first half of 2022, victims decreased especially on the roads highways (-9.7%) and to a lesser extent on streets extra-urban (-3.3%) and the streets urban (-0.1%). Although there is a decrease in road deaths in the first six months of 2023, the first data received for the second part of the year seem to suggest, on the contrary, an increase in numbers compared to the same period last year”, he added.
The Istat manager recalled that, for the decade 2021-2030, the European objectives on road safety include halving the number of victims and serious injuries by 2030 compared to 2019.