European CommissionFeb 20

A single road death is one too many.

In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes in the EU, a 12% drop compared to 2019.

Progress is real but not enough.

To meet our goal of halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and Vision Zero by 2050, we must accelerate our efforts.

We will focus on safer infrastructure, stronger enforcement, vehicle technologies, new mobility, and road safety research.

Safer roads are not optional. They are essential.

More: https://link.europa.eu/NBYq9h

Show threadDer DingsFeb 20
@EUCommission Well, you wouldn‘t need additional research if you’d finally enforce a speed limit in whole Europe including Germany.
Show threadWsmyrFeb 20
@aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission
Alright, so better rely on your pub talk instead of scientific research?! Germany is the only EU country w/o a general speed limit. As per road safety statistics 2024, with 33 road deaths/million, GER is well below the avg. of 45 deaths/million, although having a higher than avg. population density. How do you get to the conclusion that a speed limit in GER is the main factor for road safety in EU?
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/road-safety-statistics-2024-progress-continues-amid-persistent-challenges-2025-10-17_en
Road Safety Statistics for 2024: Progress continues amid persistent challenges

In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road crashes across the EU, according to latest statistics released by the European Commission today.

Mobility and Transport
Show threadPatrickFeb 20
@wsmyr @aus_der_UBahn @EUCommission, by the classic "trust be bro" metric
Show threadDer DingsFeb 20
@ppulfer @wsmyr @EUCommission Sorry, you‘re certainly right that I generalized from Germany to other countries. But there are many studies here that make speed limits responsible for less traffic deaths, e.g. this one, where they said that max. 120 would bring 1/3 less deaths. https://www.wiwi.rub.de/weniger-verkehrstote-durch-tempo-120/
Weniger Verkehrstote durch Tempo 120 - WiWi-Fakultät der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Die erste große Studie seit fast 50 Jahren belegt: Ein Tempolimit auf Autobahnen würde die Zahl der tödlichen Verkehrsunfälle um mehr als ein Drittel senken. Tempolimits auf deutschen Autobahnen sind ein Riesenzankapfel – Freiheitsberaubung für die einen, lebensrettend für die anderen. Was stimmt denn nun? Nach rund 50 Jahren hat eine Wissenschaftlerin der Ruhr-Universität Bochum nun erstmals neue belastbare Daten gesammelt. Sie zeigen: Tempo 120 würde die Unfälle mit Sc...

WiWi-Fakultät der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Show threadWsmyrFeb 20
@aus_der_UBahn @ppulfer @EUCommission Interesting study! However: "If a speed limit of 120 km/h were applied to all currently unrestricted sections of German autobahns, it would […] save 58 lives each year." This corresponds to a ~2.1% decrease of GER road deaths - considering that this number has decreased by 9% within 5 years without any introduced speed limit, I think there is not much substance to this measure, especially in EU context.
Show threadkris 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦
@wsmyr @aus_der_UBahn @ppulfer @EUCommission Because of safer cars they are now „only“ crippled for live instead dead on scene. 🙄
Feb 20 at 3:16pmWeb