A car in the snow (illustrative image).
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The number of people killed on the roads of metropolitan France in January fell by 35.2% compared to January 2020, with 171 deaths, or 93 less than a year earlier, Road Safety announced on Monday.
This drop in mortality is partly explained by the curfew introduced to fight against the coronavirus epidemic, underlines the National Interministerial Observatory for Road Safety (ONISR) in a press release.
Bad figures in overseas territories
But it must however be related to the "particularly degraded figures for the month of January 2020", adds the organization.
"Thus, if we compare the figures for January 2021 with those for January 2019, this drop is only -28.5%".
Last month, 89 motorists and 26 pedestrians in particular were killed on the roads.
The other indicators are also down, with a decline in bodily accidents (3,472, or 1,068 fewer accidents) and the number of injured (4,277 people, or 1,403 less).
Conversely in the French Overseas Territories, mortality increased in January compared to the same month of the previous year, with 22 deaths, or 6 more, and 330 people injured, or 50 more, travel restrictions and activities were lower than in metropolitan France, adds ONISR.
Mortality on the roads of France in 2020 experienced its lowest level since the post-war period, with a total of 2,550 victims, largely attributed to the reduction in traffic caused by the health crisis.
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