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Slovakia Records Europe's Sharpest Y-o-Y Drop in Road Deaths in 2009
Tuesday 22 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Brussels, June 22 (TASR-correspondent) - Slovakia saw the sharpest year-on-year drop in road fatalities from among 30, mostly EU-member countries in 2009, according to a report released by the European Transport Safety Council on Tuesday.
Slovakia recorded a 36-percent drop (down from 606 deaths in 2008 to 385 in 2009), followed by Lithuania, Denmark and Estonia (26, 25 and 24 percent, respectively.) By contrast, Malta and Luxembourg recorded the most significant increases in road deaths (40 and 34 percent, respectively). The average drop in the countries observed stood at 11 percent.
There were 71 road deaths per million people in Slovakia last year, which is close to the European-wide average (70 per million).
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