• Despite curfews and the development of teleworking, the number of road accidents and deaths in 2021 has returned to a comparable pre-pandemic level.

  • Excessive or unsuitable speed, involved in 39% and alcoholemia, present in 24% of fatal accidents, remain the leading causes of death on the road.

  • Since the start of 2022, 11 people have already lost their lives on the roads of Gironde.

Despite a period of confinement in April, curfews during the first half of the year and the development of teleworking, 70 fatal accidents were recorded in 2021 on the roads of Gironde.

They had 72 deaths.

The number of bodily accidents recorded by the police amounted to 1,395 for 1,749 people injured.

“These indicators are significantly close to the annual averages of the years preceding the pandemic (1,392 accidents for 70 fatal accidents on average between 2015 and 2019)” observes the prefecture of Gironde.

It should also be noted that almost 65% of fatal accidents took place between June and December.

The proportion of fatal accidents in larger urban areas

Excessive or inappropriate speed, involved in 39%, and alcoholemia, present in 24% of fatal accidents, remain the leading causes of road deaths.

Young people aged 18-24 were the main victims with 19 killed compared to an average of 11 in previous years.

Unusually, the proportion of fatal accidents located in built-up areas, ie in zones limited to 50 or 30 km/h, exceeds those located outside built-up areas (51% against 35%).

Nine cyclists were killed in 2021, i.e. 13% of all road deaths.

This is more than the average between 2016 and 2020, when six bicycle deaths were recorded per year.

Since the start of 2022, 11 people have already lost their lives on the roads of Gironde.

“The police will continue their checks (alcohol-narcotics-speed-telephone while driving…) warns the prefecture.

They will be supported by radar checks on board state vehicles with outsourced driving put into service since November 2021.

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