road traffic | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com A New Voice for Business in Malta Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:03:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bw-favicon.svg road traffic | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com 32 32 159130352 Road traffic accidents in Malta drop 4.2% in 2018 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/road-traffic-accidents-in-malta-drop-4-2-in-2018/1647/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:49:23 +0000 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/?p=1647 Despite road traffic accidents increasing in Q4, the figure dropped by year-on-year 4.2% to 14,378 overall in 2018, the latest NSO statistics show.

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]]> Despite road traffic accidents increasing by year-on-year 1.8% to 3,512 in the last quarter of last year, the figure dropped by year-on-year 4.2% to 14,378 overall in 2018, according to the latest statistics published by the Maltese National Statistics Office (NSO).

The total number of road traffic fatalities during 2018 was 18, one fatality less than in the preceding year. The most significant amount of road traffic casualties involved passenger cars (59.3%), followed by motorcycles (29.9%) and goods-carrying vehicles (6.7%), the NSO says. Four cyclists were hit by passenger cars, and another cyclist was hit by a goods-carrying vehicle.

The highest number of road traffic accidents was registered in Birkirkara (354 cases), followed by Marsa (186) and Ħal Qormi (173).

The full report including charts and visual representation of data is available for download at the website of NSO.

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