In 2019, 172,183 accidents with personal injuries were recorded on Italian roads, which caused 3,173 deaths and 241,384 injuries.
On average, respectively, 472 accidents, 9 deaths and 661 injuries each day.
The lockdown period imposed in 2020 saw a drop in accidents for some months with peaks of up to -80% which, on the basis of the first provisional data of the Traffic Police, is reflected at the end of September in a decrease in accidents and mortality of about 30%.
The provincial statistics, compiled by ACI and Istat, show a very different situation at the territorial level with 43 provinces in which the number of deaths has increased compared to last year.
Venice (+20), Modena and Forlì-Cesena (+18) those with the greatest increases, consequently also the regions of Emilia-Romagna (+36) and Veneto (+25), followed by Campania (+17).
Far better results in Genoa (-45 deaths), followed by Rome and Florence (-22), Sondrio (-16) and South Sardinia (-15).
Seven Regions have totaled an appreciable decrease: Liguria (-60), Lombardy (-45), Lazio (-43), Sardinia (-34), Tuscany (-30), Calabria (-23) and Piedmont (-19 ).
- Five provinces have achieved the EU 2020 target:
While in our country, in the decade that is about to end, the number of deaths from road accidents has decreased - on average - by 'only' 23%, 5 provinces have already reached the 2020 target, (Aosta, Barletta-Andria-Trani , Grosseto, Pordenone and Sondrio), while 11 recorded a decrease in mortality of over 40%.
From 2010 to 2019, a total of 6,035 fewer deaths due to road accidents occurred, distributed differently throughout the country.
Twenty provinces, however, in which the number of deaths increased compared to 2010: Chieti, Cosenza, Avellino, Piacenza, Gorizia, Imperia, Savona, Brescia, Como, Lodi, Macerata, Isernia, Asti, Bari, Enna, Ragusa, Trapani, Bolzano, Trento, Belluno.
- Mortality index:
In 8 provinces, almost all in the South, the mortality index - deaths per 100 accidents - was more than double the national average value (equal to 1.84): Campobasso (5.56), Crotone (4.98), Vibo Valentia (4.62), Nuoro (4.57), Caserta (4.43), Vercelli (4.30), Catanzaro (4.18), Cosenza (4.12), Benevento (3.78) and Isernia (3.77).
Genoa, Milan, Florence, Monza, Savona and La Spezia, vice versa, are the provinces where accidents are less serious.
The death rate, in fact, is less than 1 death for every 100 accidents.
- Social costs: they
are proportional to the size and severity of the phenomenon: Rome and Milan are the provinces that have the greatest impact on social costs - respectively 1.326 and 1.073 million euros, followed by Turin and Naples with 548 and 510 million.
Isernia, Enna, Oristano, Vibo Valentia and Aosta, those that weigh less on the national total, all with figures of less than 30 million euros.
