The European Commission has published the most recent statistics on road fatalities, based on provisional data for 2013 showing that road fatalities across the EU have decreased by 8% in 2013. This reduction, following the reduction of 9% in 2012, means that Member States are back on track towards the strategic target to reduce the number of road deaths on Europe’s roads by half in 10 years (2011-2020).

Country by country statistics show that the number of road deaths still varies greatly across the EU, from around 30 (Sweden, UK, Denmark and the Netherlands) to more than 80 (Romania, Poland, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Greece) deaths per million inhabitants.

In the respective accompanying European Commission Road Safety Vademecum, the basic safety trends, statistics and challenges in the EU 2010-2013 are highlighted.