Road fatalities drop 19% in August

Two bikers on the southern highway (illustrative image).

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Have the French been more careful on the vacation route?

In a new report, Road Safety notes a 19% drop in the number of road deaths in August, with 235 deaths.

Over the period from June to August, marked by a drop in automobile traffic due to the health crisis, mortality is 25% lower compared to the average for the same periods between 2015 and 2019, specifies Road Safety.

Road fatalities fell 29.1% in June and 11.3% in July.

13 dead in overseas territories

Overseas roads were more deadly last month since 13 people lost their lives there, two more than in August 2019. In metropolitan France, the drop in August particularly concerns motorists (108 killed) and motorcyclists (43), who "have never been so low in the last ten years, for a month of August".

On the other hand, more cyclists (22) and pedestrians (43) died compared to August 2019. The number of bodily accidents (4,339, + 2%) and injuries (6,682, + 1.2%) is also in rise.

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