Abstract
Fatal car accidents are a major issue of concern for both the police, the local and regional administrations and all those involved in providing road safety. The current paper presents an analysis of the number of fatal car accidents on Romanian roads, in the context of the Road Safety Programme of the European Commission, emphasising the efforts being made in this regard, the areas where road safety is still lacking and recommending some measures for improving the situation.
Highlights
Nowadays, road traffic has reached in some areas impressive proportions
In order to improve the situation with regard to the number of fatal car accidents in Romania, there have been taken several measures aimed at fighting the mentioned causes, which led to some progress
While the current values might seem to move the goal for 2020 out of reach, there is still some time left and by implementing the mentioned measures, it is still possible to achieve a reduction of the number of road deaths by 50% by 2020 in Romania and in the European Union
Summary
Road traffic has reached in some areas impressive proportions. the increase of cars driving on roads and motorways has led in many countries and regions to an increase in the number of car accidents. In the European Union, a first attempt to address this major problem was the setting of a goal to reduce road fatalities on all roads of the Union from 2001 to 2010 by 50%. In 2011 more than 31,500 people lost their lives in the European Union due to car accidents (figure 1 [3]). As can be seen from figure 1, there are once more growing discrepancies between the set goal and the achieved reduction in road fatalities. The authors analyse the situation of fatal car accidents in Romania at national and county level, compared to the goal set as mentioned above, indicating the main causes identified for these accidents and suggesting a series of measures that would need to be implemented, both at national, regional and local level
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