EUROSTAT REPORT WARNS OF EASTERN EUROPE ACCIDENT RISKS
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLDRIVE into eastern Europe and your chance of being killed in a road accident rise steeply say the latest European Union (EU)-wide comparative accident figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat. The EU's worst blackspots are Latvia at 752 road accident deaths per million car registrations; Romania 749; Lithuania 571; Slovakia 507 and Poland 476. Leave the EU and enter membership applicant Turkey and the risk is even worse - at 820 road accident deaths per million registrations. Compare this with the UK - using the most recent complete data set ...
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