How Many People Die On European Motorways?

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  1. Statistics : lies, lies, and damn lies

    The lie, Ireland has almost no motorways compared to everywhere else.

  2. Something doesn’t feel right; isn’t it affected by the number of people actually travelling on those motorways?
    This is not taken into account.
    If there is high number of users you would expect a higher number of fatalities?

  3. In order to understand Irish road fatality rates, you must first understand Irish road safety adverts, which have horrified generations of drivers.

  4. Weird that Croatia is missing. Our highways have multiple accidents daily during the entire summer tourist season.

  5. This needs to be expressed per capita driver, i.e. percental, and not per motorway length alone. More motorways increase the absolute unit of number of accidents, per km motorway, i.e. at a constant driver density. For equal amounts of motorways, number of accidents will increase with driver density. Once corrected for these variables, it then, maybe, interesting to see how speed limit affects accident rates and fatalities.

  6. Incorrect. The maximum speed limit in the Netherlands on a motorway is 130 km/h.

    It is limited to 100km/h during daytime and on specific stretches around cities or other dangerous situations.

  7. Netherlands numbers are high. How so? It completely defeats any agenda pro-limit propagandists have in Germany.

  8. Can’t get what is the correlation between the speed limit and the dead count for Bulgaria. Once you are at the highway the only limit is the limit of your imagination.

  9. In Bulgaria there are 35 deaths on highways for 2020 and 830 km. This is less than 83 deaths per 1000 km.

  10. But what percentage of drivers respect the speed limits in each country? Driving in Greek motorways I see almost 50% of the vehicles exceeding 130km/h.

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