70-somethings are the most common to the life in the traffic

Posted on 30-04-2015 at 8:52 by JordyS – 38 Comments”

We write prefer about horsepower and smoking tires, because every death is one too many. Fortunately, fatal accidents are becoming less for.

The good news: the number of fatalities since 2000 has been halved to 570 in 2014, according to figures from the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) and Rijkswaterstaat. They explain this as follows:

The increased road safety plays a role, such as the enhanced security mechanisms in cars, the construction of roundabouts and campaigns against alcohol in the traffic.

Interestingly enough, it is mainly men who are killed in road accidents. Among the 570 dead were 411 men and 159 women, though that’s a ratio that we also, in the figures of the past years back.

The total number of road casualties is falling, but among 70 – and 80-somethings rises the number of deaths correctly. Fact: nearly 40 percent (209 victims) of the victims is 70 years of age or older. Aged over 80 years will come even more to life in the traffic than in 2000 (103 deaths in 2014, 78 in 2000). Before we start on the driving behaviour of the elderly people: 37 percent of these accidents happened while they were on the bike.

North-Brabant appeared in 2014, the deadliest province of the Netherlands, with 100 deaths in 2014. That is, according to the CBS and Rijkswaterstaat, however, to explain: this province has along with Gelderland (77 fatalities) the most extensive road network.