Between January and October there were fewer accidents with victims on Portuguese roads, fewer fatalities, fewer serious injuries and fewer minor injuries. These are the main conclusions of the report on Accidents and Road Inspection by ANSR (National Road Safety Authority) for the month of October – available for consultation on the Authority's website.
More concrete numbers say that in the first ten months of the year there were 21 337 accidents with victims on the continent, of which 336 deaths occurred at the scene of the accident or during transport to the health unit. There were 1,518 serious injuries and 25,031 minor injuries on the roads between January and October.
ANSR says there has been a significant improvement in the main accident indicators when compared to the same period of the previous year:
- Fewer 8098 accidents with victims (-27.3%)
- Less 61 casualties (-15.4%)
- Less 436 serious injuries (-22.3%)
- Less 10 904 minor injuries (-30.3%)
Collisions were the most frequent type of accident on Portuguese roads, despite the fact that the highest number of fatalities resulted from crashes (+46.7%). In this type of accident, there were fewer fatalities (-13.7%) and fewer serious injuries (-16.6%). With regard to being run over, there were also fewer fatalities (-1.8%) and fewer serious injuries (-41.1%).
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The majority of accidents with victims registered between January and October in Portugal occurred on streets: 62.7% of accidents, 34.5% of fatal victims, 43.3% of serious injuries and 60.8% of minor injuries.
67.6% of all fatalities were drivers, 15.2% passengers and 17.3% pedestrians. In the case of serious injuries, the proportion of drivers increases (68.3%), while that of passengers increases to 17.4% and that of pedestrians decreases to 14.3%. Light vehicles occupy the largest share of accidents (74.4%).
More than 95 million and 600 thousand vehicles were inspected in Portugal between January and October, which represents an increase in inspection activity of 27.2% compared to the same period of 2019. This increase is due to the installation of more systems of ANSR radar (SINCRO network) by 32.0%, for example, and by 37.4% of PML's radars. In inspection actions, more than one million infringements were detected, which represents, compared to 2019, a reduction of 2.7%.
Speeding continues to be the most common offense committed by Portuguese drivers, with 63.2% of the offenses recorded by ANSR corresponding to this type of offence.
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