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17 Percent More Traffic Fatalities in Austria Compared to the Previous Year
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Yesterday's July 1st is the year 2025 half over. The Austrian Transport Club (VCÖ) takes this as an opportunity to draw a sad interim balance. "Since the beginning of the year, 16 people have been killed in traffic accidents on Tirol's roads. In the first half of 2024, it was 13 and is estimated in a dispatch. In view of the current heat wave, the VCÖ warns that the risk of accidents increases in heat. According to Statistik Austria, there were …
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der Standard DE162 people were killed on the streets of Austria in the first half of the year, according to the Board of Trustees for Road Safety. In 2024, there were 138 fatalities.
In particular, many people were killed on motorcycles or bicycles.
Eight people have been killed in traffic accidents in Vienna since the beginning of the year. One person more than in the first half of the previous year, as reported by the Verkehrsclub Österreich. Six victims were pedestrians, four of them older than 65 years.
In Styria, however, the number of road fatalities decreased in the first half of 2025. According to current figures, 23 people were killed in traffic accidents – five fewer than in the same period of the previous year. The mobility organisation VCÖ sees this as a positive trend, but warns of premature warning. A look at the previous year shows that while the first half of 2024 had 28 fatalities, the number rose to 35 in the second half of the ye…
In the first half of 2023, the number of fatalities in Austria increased significantly, as reported by the Board of Trustees for Traffic Safety (KFV). Salzburg, however, is one of the few federal states in which the number of victims has fallen.
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