50% drop in road accident fatalities in Spain between 2001 and 2010

The number of fatalities in traffic accidents in Spain has dropped by more than 50 per cent between 2001 and 2010 from 5,517 to 2,478. In total, the ten years saw 41,665 people lose their lives on Spanish roads while 205,774 were seriously injured.

5201 Stop Accidentes, a road safety association, has asked the new government to maintain a total commitment to keeping road safety a priority and to complete the Strategic Road Safety Plan 2011-2020 which had been on the previous government's agenda. This aims to reduce road traffic accident fatalities by almost 40 per cent by 2020, from the 59 deaths per one million inhabitants at present to 37 deaths per million. The plan also aims to reduce to zero the number of children who die without a child safety retention system, reduce by 30 per cent the number of deaths from exiting conventional roads or accidents on the way to work, and reduce the number of drivers between 18 and 24 years old who die or are seriously injured at weekends.