Last year, eleven people were killed in road accidents on roads in the county. Five people were killed in 2017 and the year before its four people. The reduction in fatalities in recent years has thus been reversed. According to Malte Burwick, head of the National Association for the Promotion of Road Safety (NTF), it is difficult to say what it is due to.

- Individual events can have a major impact in the statistics and therefore it is not possible to draw an exact conclusion as to what this is due to.

However, Malte Burwick points out that more drivers need to adapt their driving style to "important success factors".

- That is to say that you are sober, adapt the speed to the road surface and make sure you keep a distance when you get out on the roads.

The goal: fatal accidents should be halved by 2020

Since 2007, Sweden aims to halve the number of fatalities in road traffic accidents by 2020 - which means that the number of fatalities in traffic must then not exceed 220 people. In 2018, 324 people died in road traffic accidents in Sweden. By November this year, 206 people had died in road traffic accidents in the country.

In the clip above you can hear the National Association for the Advancement of Road Safety and Uppsala Fire Defense about the fatal accidents in the county.