The number of road deaths in metropolitan France fell by 16.9% in April, with 236 people killed, 48 fewer than in April 2018, Road Safety reported Wednesday.
Since the beginning of the year, marked by three consecutive months of increase, the number of deaths remains an increase of 1,1%, that is to say eleven more killed than at the same period of the year 2018. This one s 'concluded' on a "historic" decline in road mortality with 3,488 people killed, metropolis and overseas combined, according to a final report of Road Safety also released Wednesday.
Cyclist mortality increases
The decline in April "exclusively for motorists (-12%)", says the Road Safety in a statement, while road mortality of cyclists, with 22 deaths, is "the highest recorded for a month of April since ten years".
Other indicators are down with a 5.5% decline in personal injury accidents (4,415 or 259 fewer accidents) compared to April 2018, as did the number of injuries, down 5.3% (5,572 people injured). 312 fewer), according to the National Interministerial Observatory of Road Safety (ONISR).
23 more deaths on overseas roads
"These encouraging results should encourage every road user to maintain his vigilance in the weeks and months ahead, particularly busy in road travel," says Road Safety, before the long weekends of Ascension and Pentecost.
Mortality, however, increased on overseas roads, with 23 deaths, 6 more than in April 2018. The other indicators are also increasing.