Lowers the number of road deaths for the seventh consecutive year
According to the Road Safety Balance published by the Directorate General of Traffic, these figures represent a reduction compared to 2009 from 8.7 percent in the number of accidents, 9.1 percent in the number of fatalities and 11 , 4 per cent in serious injuries.
It is beyond the objectives of the EU
The report says that road accidents has fallen for the seventh consecutive year, allowing Spain to overcome the ambitious EU target of reducing by 50 percent the number of deaths in late 2010.
Fewer deaths than in the days of “Tell Me”
Specifically, the last year there were 2,337 fewer deaths in 2001, representing a decrease of 57.5 percent and, what is most striking, 1,785 fewer deaths than in 1963 with a fleet of 1.7 million, compared the 31 million vehicles currently circulating on Spanish roads.
Also seriously injured down
In terms of serious injuries (more than 24 hours in hospital) were recorded in 2010, a total of 7,954 serious injuries, 1,021 fewer than in 2009 and 10,990 fewer than in 2001 when it amounted to 18,994 serious injuries. Thus, the cumulative decline since 2001 reached 58.9 percent and from 51 serious injuries every day in 2001 to 21 in 2010.
Conventional routes
By type of way, conventional roads have the highest number of fatalities, with 77 percent of the total. On these roads unless 157 people died in 2009, representing a decrease of 11 percent. Is on expressways where it has registered the largest decline, with 12 percent fewer deaths. Still, compared to 2001, there has been in all types of track a decline in the number of deaths of more than 50 percent: in 69 percent highway, on the highway, 58 percent and conventional road 56 percent.
Motorcycle fatalities also decreased
244 motorcyclists died in 2010, 40 fewer than last year, representing a reduction of 14 percent. In 2009 the figure had dropped by almost 8 percent, which is the fourth consecutive year that decreases the number of motorcyclists killed, with cumulative decline since 2007, the year that launched the Security Plan Road Bikes, from 42.6 percent. Compared to 2001, the rate of motorcycle deaths per million vehicles park has been reduced significantly, rising from 156 in 2001 and 154 in 2003 to 93 in 2010.
Reasons for the widespread decline
The DGT believes that much of the decline in road deaths due to the improvement of safety accessories and consolidation of safer behaviors:
* The percentage of passenger car drivers and passengers who died were not wearing seat belts has decreased from 41 percent in 2001 to 39 percent in 2003 to 23 percent in 2010.
* The percentage of motorcycle drivers and passengers not wearing helmets died on the road has dropped from 11 percent in 2001 and 2003 to 7 percent in 2010.
* The percent of moped drivers and passengers not wearing helmets died on the road, has fallen from 48 percent in 2001 and 49 percent in 2003 to 18 percent in 2010.
* The percentage of positive blood alcohol decreased from 4.9 in 2001 to 1.8 in 2010.
* The percentage of vehicles detected above 140 km / h was 0.3 in 2010, while in 2001 was 6.8.