The trend is negative, after nine months of decline. A total of 281 people died in a road accident in mainland France in November 2023, a toll increasing by 16% compared to the same month of the previous year (242 killed), announced Thursday the Road safety. This is the third consecutive month that an increase in road deaths has been recorded.
This increase in mortality particularly concerns motorists with 148 deaths (+20 killed compared to November 2022) and pedestrians (56 killed, +10 deaths), detailed the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR) in a press release. Over the first 11 months of 2023, Road Safety recorded 2,846 road deaths, down 5% compared to the same period in 2022.
The number of serious injuries is barely falling
“If the accident figures for 2023 are at this stage trending favorably, those for the last quarter are increasing. Even more so at the end of the year, users must be perfectly aware of their responsibility as drivers,” observed the interministerial delegate for road safety, Florence Guillaume, quoted in the press release.
The number of serious injuries fell slightly over one year (-2%), to 1,183 in November and the police recorded a total of 4,535 road traffic accidents, i.e. 5% more than in November 2022.
On overseas roads, the toll in November rose to 15 people killed (-25% compared to November 2022) and 344 injured (+19%).