A sole 38 ore dal 2025, al momento abbiamo 178 morti sulla strada in Irlanda nel 2024, rispetto ai 184 del 2023. Dal 2011 non abbiamo superato la barriera dei 200, quindi ciò suggerisce che le strade e gli automobilisti sono più sicuri. Eppure siamo bombardati da persone che muoiono quasi ogni giorno (così sembra).
Forse è che i veicoli sono più sicuri ma gli autisti no. Al giorno d’oggi ci sono troppe distrazioni in macchina e la velocità è ancora un grosso problema. Apri qualsiasi pagina di social media e vedrai che si verificano arresti anomali quasi ogni giorno.
Il collegamento seguente riporta una ripartizione dei numeri in ciascuna categoria
https://www.garda.ie/en/roads-policing/statistics/roads-policing-fatalities-to-date-for-2024/
Road deaths down on last year (so far)
byu/siciowa inireland
di siciowa
9 commenti
If you knew the amount of individual car journeys in ireland per year per person, it must show driving is really very safe here all told.
Councils lowering speed limits in urban areas and introducing traffic calming measures should in theory turn some deaths into injuries.
There’s been a lot of that in the last few years.
I made this comment the other day when someone posted about “when did driving get so bad”. If you look at the death and serious injury rates on roads in Ireland in the 70s-90s period, the last 25 years has seen a huge drop. Whatever has changed it’s generally been for the better not the worse. Hopefully over time as those changes become the norm we will keep seeing reductions in deaths.
Roads are safer than they were before, despite what social media tells you. Look at the annual figures in the 80s or 90s. It was far higher for much lower population
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0710/1459061-road-deaths-2024-numbers-point-to-15-year-on-year-rise/
This is a report from July this year. They were predicting a 15% increase from 2023. While there is no good amount of road deaths, it is encouraging to see that we reduced it in the second half of the year. If we can keep the numbers like in the 2nd 6 months of the year, next year could potentially be 150 to 160. Hopefully even lower.
“We’re sorry that your loved one died but look on the bright side, it’s less deaths than last year!”
I’m sure that will go down super well with the bereaved, you make sure to bring it up as much as possible.
The fact that RTCs make our national news shows how safe our roads actually are. How many other countries lead the main nightly news with a single vehicle RTC? If our roads were as dangerous as they make out a multi vehicle RTC wouldn’t make the news.
The trend has been increasing over the last few years
>European Commission confirm that Ireland has had the most significant increase in road deaths in the period from 2019 to 2023. During this period there has been a 31% increase in road deaths in Ireland.
Hopefully this year is a reversal of that trend but I wouldn’t be optimistic
We have to factor in the increase in driving as well (population rising, car journey being more frequent, etc). So it’s very good numbers actually year over year.