The number of traffic fatalities fell to its lowest in decades in 2025, data shows. However, accidents with elderly pedestrians and young scooter riders are causing concern among experts.
Last year, 1,815 people were injured and 43 were killed in traffic accidents, which is significantly less than in 2024 when 2,156 people were injured and 69 lost their lives.
“The number of fatalities, which was 43 last year, is the lowest figure of this century and most likely in the entire longer history,” said Maria Pashkevich, head of the traffic safety department at the Transport Administration.
She said there was a “positive decrease” in traffic accidents involving property damage, traffic accidents with casualties, the number of fatalities, the number of injured and also the number of seriously injured.
However, Pashkevich said two risk groups stand out in otherwise positive statistics — motorcyclists and electric scooter riders. While previously there were problems among 20- to 30-year-olds, last year the number of accidents involving 11- to 15-year-olds doubled.
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