Poland tops fatality list

14th May 2011

Poland tops the list when it comes to road deaths

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A new report states that more pedestrians are killed in Poland than on the streets of any other EU country.

The statistics, compiled by the European Road Safety Charter (ERSC), found that between 2001 - 2009, almost 80,000 pedestrians died, making Poland responsible for approximately 20 percent of the entire deaths.

During this period pedestrian deaths have decreased in Poland by only 20 percent, compared to Spain (44 percent), Sweden (49 percent) and Portugal (56 percent).

“It’s still too early to get figures from 2010,” says Anna Zielinska of the Motor Transport Institute, a member of the ETSC. “But the deaths of pedestrians and cyclists are by far the biggest problems on ...

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