May traffic accidents claim 26 lives

Twenty-six people lost their lives in road traffic accidents in Norway in May, the same number as last year and one more than the average for the last five years. According to the first overview, 798 people were injured in car accidents in May this year. The corresponding overview last year listed the number injured at 777.

Last month's fatalities included 14 motorists. Six were between 19 and 24 years of age, five from 26 to 38, one in his 50s and two over 70. The other fatalities included five passengers, two motorcyclists, three cyclists, one pedestrian and one other road-user.

Traffic accidents have claimed 107 lives from January to May this year, 15 more than in the same period last year, but four under the average for the period 1992 to 1996.

New Statistics

Road traffic accidents involving personal injury, May 1997.
Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics and annually in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Road Traffic Accidents. More information: Aud-Marit Beck, tel. +47 62 88 54 20, e-mail: amb@ssb.no or Jan Monsrud, tel. +47 62 88 54 07, e-mail: jam@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 26, 1997