With a slight drop in wounds and an almost stable mortality in continental France, the year 2024 ended with a relatively positive note, except abroad that pays a heavy price, according to the provisional annual figures presented this Thursday, January 30 for road safety . One day, when a teenager lost his life in a school bus accident with 26 injured.
In France, 3,190 people in total died on the roads, an increase of 0.7%, while 233,000 people were injured (-0.8%), the National Interministerial Security Observatory announced (ONISR).
In foreign territories, the increase is higher (+4%) and the number of deceased people amounts to 241. The mortality of the two motorized wheels, which represents a third of these victims, increases that of cars and pedestrians also . In terms of age, young people aged 18 to 34 are the most affected: 103 dead in 2024 against 82 last year.
Most risky and elderly young people
As for France, young people are also among the most risky profiles, followed by the elderly. As for the type, they are men.
In 2024,2477 men died in a traffic accident, or 78% of those killed. Men also represent 75% of serious injuries and 84% of the alleged responsible for fatal accidents, “or proportions equivalent to those observed in 2023,” says the ONISR.
By transport mode, car occupants still represented less than half of the murdered people last year (48%). There were more dead between the two motorized wheels (726 in 2024, against 706 in 2023), more also among pedestrians (451 killed, 12 more than in 2023).
As for cyclists, whose mortality had experienced a 30% leap in 2022 compared to the last year of preparation, 2019, the number of stabilized dead (222 in total in 2024, against 221 the previous year), as well as that of serious injuries (2,550).
The same observation about mortality for EDPM users (Motorized Personal Travel Machine, electric scooter type), with 44 deaths, stable compared to 2023, but with 780 serious injured, an increase of 16%.
By type of road, 60% of those killed are out of agglomeration.
“We must all adopt responsible behavior”
François-Noël Buffet, Minister of the Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau, points out that by remaining below 3,200 dead in France, the results “are encouraging” but that “it is our collective responsibility to act to reduce these human dramas.”
“We all have, drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and scooters of scooters, we adopt responsible behavior, respect the safety rules,” he said in the press release of the delegation to road safety.
The government launched a mission against violence on roads last October, after the death of a cyclist in Paris, killed by a motorist suspected of having crushed him voluntarily.
Final road safety figures must be published at the end of May.
Source: BFM TV
