Rise in vehicle left road-related fatalities

Eighty-three persons lost their lives in traffic accidents in Norway from January to April this year. This is three more than the same period last year. Twenty-five per cent of the fatalities so far this year involved cars that left the road. The figure last year was 19 per cent.

Traffic accidents in which the vehicle left the road have claimed 21 lives so far this year, against 14 last year. The 21 fatalities included 12 motorists, seven passengers and two motorcyclists. In the first four months of 1997 an equal number of motorists and motorcyclists, but no passengers, were killed in this type of accident. Compared to last year, however, there have been fewer fatalities so far this year involving collisions between vehicles. Forty-nine per cent of the fatalities last year occurred in connection with collisions between vehicles, compared to 40 per cent last year. So far this year, collisions have claimed 35 fatalities: 26 motorists and nine passengers.

New Statistics

Road traffic accidents involving personal injury, April 1998.
Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics and Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Road Traffic Accidents. For more information, contact: aud-marit.beck@ssb.no, tel. +47 62 88 54 20, or asbjų rn.willy.wethal@ssb.no, tel. +47 62 88 54 15.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 22, 1998