The number of deaths on the roads of Continental France recorded a 10% decrease in March compared to the same month last year, but increased by 33% abroad, road safety announced Friday.
“Road mortality records its fifth consecutive month of decrease. According to estimates for this first 2025 quarter in front of the first quarter of 2024, 100 lives were saved,” road safety said in a press release.
According to estimates of the National Interministerial Observatory for Road Safety (ONISR), 231 people died in March on the roads of Metropolitan France, against 257 in March 2024.
“Let us continue and amplify this encouraging dynamic by showing us attentive and benevolent towards others along the way,” said Florence Guillaume, interministerial delegate for road safety, cited in this press release.
“The beginning of spring is marked by traffic loaded during vacation and Easter weekend.”
Caution for two -wheeled vehicles
Onisr points out a fall in the mortality of motorists (110 killed 19 less), two -wheeled motorized vehicles (50 killed 13 less) and cyclists (7 killed 5 less). On the other hand, road safety deplores an increase in pedestrian mortality (42 dead or 6 more).
In the 4,214 body traffic accidents identified by the police on the main roads of France in March 2025 (3% more for a year), 1,262 serious injuries were counted, an increase of 8%.
Florence Guillaume also called two -wheeled users (motorcycle and bicycle) to warn, “with the return of sunny days”, and reminded the cyclists the new rule in force since January: “Interlinea traffic (…) is practiced on roads with at least 2×2 lanes with the central media, between the two more of the left when the traffic is dense or when it stops.”
Abroad, the Police recorded an increase of 33% of the people killed on the road in March, with 24 deaths, but found a drop of 8% of traffic accidents of the body, with 258 accidents.
The number of injured, 354, has also dropped 3% compared to March 2024.
Source: BFM TV
