Hungary – sixth deadliest road network in the EU

In 2018, for 1 million inhabitants, 64 road accident fatalities were registered in Hungary. With this, Hungary has got the European Union’s sixth deadliest road network. Additionally, differences between the member states are huge – in our country, proportionally 2.3 times more people died in road accidents last year than in the UK, which can be found at the positive end of the list.

In 2018, 25 thousand road accident fatalities were registered in the European Union, which means on average 49 per 1 million inhabitants had car accidents that resulted in death – shown by the data of the European Commission.

As penzcentrum.hu describes, Hungary occupies an extremely negative ranking on the overall EU list – concerning the number of deaths on the roads, the Hungarian road network is the 6th deadliest in the EU. Accordingly, for 1 million inhabitants, 64 road accident fatalities were registered, which is 15 people more than the EU average.