Obviously, I only got my permit at the beginning of the year, oops
It’s always tricky with Luxembourg’s stats as one big accident can represent all of that change.
However, the general changes EU wide are increases in mobile phone use, increase in weight, size and power of vehicles. Luxembourg’s population has the spare cash for those large vehicles which do increase the force in accidents and are more likely to hurt vulnerable road users.
On an anecdotal level I see so much more bad behaviour… I live along a school walking route, it’s a 30km/h residential street but is often used as a rat run with people travelling in clear excess of the limit some by at least double.
I also get to walk past traffic where there are so many on their phones… leaving “WhatsApp gaps” in traffic, moving off without looking etc. I was driving behind someone the other day and he was so engrossed in his phone that he hit the curb twice, wandered into the oncoming lane and failed to move off repeatedly.
I gave him a toot and mimed to put his phone down and instead of being the remote bit embarrassed he decided to get out his car and threaten me. It’s this kind of attitude that’s unfortunately worming its way in to Luxembourg…
Can be partly explained by simple population increase. Road deaths is an absolute value, so if more people are coming to the country and having a car, it increases the number of cars, mileage, and sadly deadly accidents too
Every time I drive to work or back (highway and land roads), there is that one moment, that I am glad I got out alive. Mostly it’s people overtaking in risky places or people looking at their mobiles while their car drifts off into the oncoming lane.
Suicidal thoughts sometimes on the road thinking about the fact im paying 1k for a room in a shared house
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Average speed dropped again due to jams
we already lowered max permitted alcohol level in blood to 0.5 promile
what’s next? driving sober?
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More and more people commuting in from three different countries and getting into accidents here instead of in their home countries?
Increasing population also from countries with lower driving standards in combination with heavy motorized leasing cars.
Also motorbike drivers.
I am waiting for the first post ranting about “Frenchs” 👀
The statistics can change dramatically by one accident.
People have issues with following rules. Before they put radars on tunnels on A7 nobody was going 90km/h even though the sign was there.
As a Belgian I can explain the Belgian statistic: It’s because we are standing more and more still stuck in traffic. Hard to die at 0 to 20 km/h
Some details available here
https://gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/documents/actualites/2024/07/04-accidents-route/bilan-des-accidents-de-la-route-2023.pdf
Regression towards the mean?
Obviously, I only got my permit at the beginning of the year, oops
It’s always tricky with Luxembourg’s stats as one big accident can represent all of that change.
However, the general changes EU wide are increases in mobile phone use, increase in weight, size and power of vehicles. Luxembourg’s population has the spare cash for those large vehicles which do increase the force in accidents and are more likely to hurt vulnerable road users.
On an anecdotal level I see so much more bad behaviour… I live along a school walking route, it’s a 30km/h residential street but is often used as a rat run with people travelling in clear excess of the limit some by at least double.
I also get to walk past traffic where there are so many on their phones… leaving “WhatsApp gaps” in traffic, moving off without looking etc. I was driving behind someone the other day and he was so engrossed in his phone that he hit the curb twice, wandered into the oncoming lane and failed to move off repeatedly.
I gave him a toot and mimed to put his phone down and instead of being the remote bit embarrassed he decided to get out his car and threaten me. It’s this kind of attitude that’s unfortunately worming its way in to Luxembourg…
Can be partly explained by simple population increase. Road deaths is an absolute value, so if more people are coming to the country and having a car, it increases the number of cars, mileage, and sadly deadly accidents too
Every time I drive to work or back (highway and land roads), there is that one moment, that I am glad I got out alive. Mostly it’s people overtaking in risky places or people looking at their mobiles while their car drifts off into the oncoming lane.
Suicidal thoughts sometimes on the road thinking about the fact im paying 1k for a room in a shared house
[removed]
Average speed dropped again due to jams
we already lowered max permitted alcohol level in blood to 0.5 promile
what’s next? driving sober?