The autonomous city of Ceuta and the Community of Madrid are two of the safest EU regions on the road, ranking among the 10 with the lowest mortality rate from traffic accidents.
This follows from the latest Eurostat data on road mortality in the second category of the Nomenclature of Territorial Statistical Units (NUTS-2), that is, the equivalent in Spain to autonomous communities and autonomous cities.
Eurostat data includes 2022 as the last year with information available and comparable among those close to 240 regions NUTS-2 category that the EU has.
The EU recorded 20,889 road deaths that yearwhich means a 3.6% more than in 2021 and a rate of 46 fatalities per million inhabitants.
A total of 107 regions recorded an incidence of death on interurban roads below the EU average, while 129 had a higher rate and 5 maintained the community average.
There are 22 community regions with a rate of 25 or fewer deaths of road traffic per million inhabitants. Three Spaniards appear in this relationship: Ceuta, in fifth place (12 people killed per million inhabitants); Community of Madrid, tenth (18), and the Basque Country, in 22nd position (25).
Most of those regions with relatively low mortality rates were predominantly urban areasincluding six capitals: Stockholm (7 deaths per million inhabitants), Berlin and Vienna (9 in both cases), Prague (15) and Brussels and Helsinki (20 in both cases).
Worst regions
By contrast, five EU regional areas recorded at least 120 road deaths for every million inhabitants: Alentejo (Portugal), with 149; South Aegean (Greece), with 131; Ionian Islands (Greece), with 127; Oltenia Southwest (Romania), with 123; the outermost zone of Guadeloupe (France), with 120.
The most unsafe Spanish regions on roads are Castilla y León (75 fatalities per million inhabitants), Aragón (61), Navarra (56), Melilla (48) and Castilla-La Mancha (47), which exceed the community average.
In more than four out of five regions, the incidence rate of road deaths decreased between 2012 and 2022. The largest declines occurred in the remote Swedish region of North Central Sweden (-62.9%) and the Polish Malopolskie and Austrian Salzburg regions, which also recorded falls of more than 60%.
Instead, The rate of fatalities in traffic accidents increased during that period in 37 community regions. The largest increases of at least 50% were recorded in Cantabria (Spain), Severen tsentralen (Bulgaria), North Aegean (Greece), Azores Autonomous Region (Portugal) and Malta.
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