page_title: Road traffic safety
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Road traffic safety / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: Persons killed in road accidents per millions of passenger-kilometres driven by car
context_page_description: Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle passengers, horse riders, and passengers of on-road public transport.
  Best practices in modern road safety strategy:
  The basic strategy of a Safe System approach is to ensure that in the event of a crash, the impact energies remain below the threshold likely to produce either death or serious injury. This threshold will vary from crash scenario to crash scenario, depending upon the level of protection offered to the road users involved. For example, the chances of survival for an unprotected pedestrian hit by a vehicle diminish rapidly at speeds greater than 30 km/h, whereas for a properly restrained motor vehicle occupant the critical impact speed is 50 km/h and 70 km/h.
  — International Transport Forum, Towards Zero, Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach, Executive Summary page 19
caption: According to Eurostat, there is almost a linear proportion between the total number of passenger-km driven by car and road fatalities.
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