Road Safety in European Union and Poland

• In Event: Poster Session II

Abstract

In 2014, almost 25 700 people did not make it home in European Union; more than 200 000 people came home with life-changing, serious injuries. However, road safety is also one of the big European success stories. In 2014, there were 5 700 fewer deaths than in 2010. In the year 2000, very few Member States of EU had a fatality rate lower than 80 deaths per million inhabitants. By 2014, only five Member States had a fatality rate above that.
Traffic safety has been improving in Poland for several years. The year 2015 was important in this regard as the number of persons who died in traffic accidents in Poland was smaller by 264 and the number of persons injured was smaller by 2 767 than in 2014. In the European traffic safety ranking, prepared by the European Commission (2015), Poland was 3 positions higher than in the previous years. Also, Poland achieved higher than average in Europe drop in the number of deaths in traffic accidents. However, Poland is still facing many difficult tasks on its way to improving the traffic safety level.

Author

• Emilia Jurgielewicz-Delegacz, Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok