CIECA Workshop Nimes April 9th

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PTW fatalities in EuropeUpdate 2000-2005
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1. Moped fatality Trends
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Moped fatalities / circulating park

• Fatalities / 10.000 vehicles show improvement in
  all countries
• 2005 Total Average 1.15 fat./10.000 vehicles
• Stagnations in improvements in Austria, UK,
  France, Greece
• Ireland no data

Data ACEM, Nat. stat. CARE
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Moped circulating park and all vehicle
circulating park

• Mopeds become less apparent on European Roads
• The of mopeds decreased from 6.3 in 2000 to
  5.1 in 2005
• Strongest relative decreases in Portugal,
  Netherlands, Italy, Belgium

Data ACEA, ACEM all vehicle circulating park (
Total of car, bus, truck, PTW)
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Moped safety trends - general

• Improving, expected to continue to improve over
  next years
• Number of fatalities decreased by -34.9 between
  2000 and 2005
• -26 for 2000 - 2004
• An increase in the absolute number of fatalities
  in UK, but not significant
• EU 15 country moped rider fatalities continues to
  improve, reducing faster than the park
• 1.15 fatalities per 10.000 vehicles in 2005
• 1.26 fatalities per 10.000 vehicles in 2004

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Moped safety trends by country

• Highest safety progress margins compared to the
  2005 EU 15 country average of 1.15 fatalities /
  10.000 vehicles
• Greece 3.1 1.5 of EU park
• France 2.7 10.3 of EU park
• Portugal 2.2 3.4 of EU park
• Denmark 2.0 1.1 of EU park
• Ireland no data

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2. Motorcycle fatality Trends
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Motorcycle fatalities / circulating park

• Fatalities / 10.000 vehicles show improvement in
  all countries between 2000 and 2005
• Except in Italy, Finland, Ireland
• 2005 Total Average 3.1 fat./10.000 vehicles
• Ireland data includes mopeds

Data ACEM, Nat. stat. CARE
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Motorcycle circulating park and all vehicle
circulating park

• Motorcycles become more apparent on European
  Roads
• The of reg. motorcycles increased from 5.4 in
  2000 to 6.3 in 2005

Data ACEA, ACEM all vehicle circulating park (
Total of car, bus, truck, PTW)
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Motorcycle safety trends General

• Contrasted trend
• EU 15 motorcycle park increases largely faster
  than rider fatalities fatalities increased by
  5.2 from 2000-2005 while the motorcycle
  circulating park has increased by 28.
• Between 2000 and 2005, the total average number
  of fatalities per 10.000 registered vehicles show
  a strong improvement (18) (from 3.8 to 3.1)
• except for Italy (2.3 fat./10.000 veh., Italy
  being responsible for 31.5 of the EU 15 park)
• except for Finland (small numbers though)

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Motorcycle safety trends by Country

• Positive trend
• Decrease of number of fatalities in countries
  between 2000-2005
• Luxembourg (not significant)
• The Netherlands
• Denmark
• Austria
• Portugal
• Greece
• UK
• France
• In these countries a decrease of the number
  fatalities per 10.000 registered vehicles of more
  than 18

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Motorcycle safety trends by Country

• Contrasted trends in
• Belgium, Sweden, Spain (2000-2005)
• An increase of absolute fatality numbers 4.2,
  17.9, 20.4,
• Decrease of fatalities / circulating park
  -16.6, -22.9, -3.6
• Finland
• The increasing trend of absolute numbers is not
  statistically significant
• Improvement is shown when circulating park is
  considered

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Motorcycle safety trends by Country

• Negative trends particularly in
• Italy
• 55,6 fatalities from 2000-2005
• Improvement since 2004 by 6.3 in fatalities per
  10.000 vehicles
• from 2.5 in 2004 to 2.3 in 2005
• Motorcycle fatality share increased from 11.2
  in 2000 to 20.5 in 2005
• Ireland
• 41 of fatalities (2000-2003, includes also
  moped data)

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Motorcycle safety trends by Country

• Highest safety progress margins compared to the
  2005 EU 15 total average of 3.1 fatalities /
  10.000 vehicles
• Ireland, 15.7 no park data
• Portugal, 11.3 1.1 of EU park
• France, 7.5 7.5 of EU park
• UK, 4.7 7.6 of EU park
• Greece 5.3 (2004) 4.6 of EU park
• Ireland data includes also moped fatalities

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3. Overview
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PTW Fatalities and circulating park in EU 15
(2005)

• 5 countries
• Italy
• France
• Germany
• Spain
• UK
• are responsible for 79 of PTW fatalities
• and for 83 of EU 15 PTW park

OTS by DfT
Data ACEM, IRTAD, CARE
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All Fatalities and PTW fatalities 2000-2005

• Road fatalities (all road users) decreased by
  -27.3
• PTW rider fatalities decreased by -7.2
• Moped rider fatalities decreased by -34,9
• Motorcycle rider fatalities increased by 5.2

40.989
31.174
6.404
6.901
Data Nat. stat. CARE
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Industrys views on PTW road safety figures
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MPs Countries of particular attention
EU 15
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MCs Countries of particular attention
EU 15
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PTWs Countries of particular attention
EU 15