Sad results for 2023: seven percent more road deaths than in 2022

There were 20 road deaths in Burgenland last year (2022: 19), in Carinthia 29 (21), in Salzburg 36 (19), in Styria 81 (70), in Tyrol 35 (29).

Although the number of victims has increased in these five states, the number has decreased in Vorarlberg by twelve (16), in Lower Austria by 97 (98), in Upper Austria by 73 (80) and in Vienna by 13 (18). . until 2022.

Changed root causes of accidents
Compared to 2022, there were shifts in the likely main causes of accidents, there were fewer accidents caused by alcohol, heart or circulatory disorders or acute illnesses while driving – a decrease was also recorded due to lack of safe distance, ignoring orders or prohibitions and violation of the right of way.

However, there was an increase in pedestrian misbehavior, improper driving speeds, overtaking, fatigue and inattention or distraction.

In 2023, seven children died in accidents
Last year, seven children up to the age of 14 died in road traffic, four of them as car passengers, two as pedestrians and one as the driver of a ‘toy and trendy sports device’. Thirteen children died in accidents in 2022 and six children died in 2021. In 2023, two children aged six to fifteen died in an accident on the way to school.

The most serious accident last year took place on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at around 7 a.m. on the northern motorway (A5) in the municipality of Bad Pirawarth, Gänserndorf district, in Lower Austria. When a minibus rolled off the highway onto an underlying agricultural road, four Ukrainian passengers, including two children, were killed and three others seriously injured.

• A total of 48 traffic fatalities occurred Highways And highways; This means a share of 12.1 percent of all traffic fatalities and an increase of 14 (41.1 percent) compared to 2022. In 2023, 301 road users (76 percent) died in open spaces, 95 (24 percent) in the surrounding area .

• 178 were lost in fatal traffic accidents in 2023 Car occupants her life, 82 Motorcyclist (of which 22 with light motorcycles), 49 pedestrian41 Cyclist (of which 17 with electric bicycles), 16 Truck occupants (of which 13 in small trucks) and ten Moped driver died.

• The number of deaths has increased significantly compared to 2022 Handlebars for motorcycles and light motorcycles, with 55 fatal motorcyclists, the lowest number in the past thirty years. The highest number during this period was 112 deaths in 1997 and 2000. According to the BMI, the number of truck occupants killed has decreased slightly.

1. The number of dead pedestrians was eight to one protective path for life there were 14 in 2022. Up railway crossings Eleven people died in accidents at railway crossings (2022: 17). In 2023 there were two deaths road tunnels (2022: three).

• In traffic accidents wrong-way drivers In 2023, two road users were killed, compared to zero the year before.

• 129 or 35.4 percent of all fatal accidents (364) occurred in 2023 Solo accidents. Of the 178 car occupants who died in an accident, 136 were using a car Seat belt.
• 86 or 21.7 percent of the deaths were road users non-Austrian citizensone in five fatal traffic accidents (76 or 20.9 percent) was caused by a foreigner.

37.4 percent of those who died were 60 years or older
More than a third of all road fatalities (148 or 37.4 percent) were 60 years or older at the time of the accident, 42 of these (10.6 percent of all fatalities) were older than 80 years.

In the age group 17 to 29 years old, 82 people (20.7 percent of all road deaths) died in traffic accidents last year.