Cork Road Safety Working Together Group Local Road Safety Plan
5.4 Targets
Data for 2020 on road deaths across the European Union and other countries covered by European Transport Safety Council’s Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) programme have ranked Ireland as the seventh safest out of the 28 countries that collect road collision data. Ireland recorded a total of 30 deaths per annum per million inhabitants in 2020. The average number of deaths per annum across the 28 PIN countries over the same period was 42 per million inhabitants. Although Ireland is currently one of the better performing EU countries in terms of road safety, there is no room for complacency. The Government’s vision is to continue to improve road safety performance in line with the best performing countries in the world including the Norway and Sweden both of whom recorded less than 20 deaths per annum per million inhabitants in 2020 10 . The long-term goal of ‘Our Journey Towards Vision Zero’ Irelands Government Road Safety Strategy 2021 - 2030 is achieving Vision Zero (i.e., zero road deaths or serious injuries) by 2050.
To achieve this long-term goal Ireland has set a target to reduce road deaths and serious injuries by 50% by 2030. (An average of 2017-2019 figures for fatalities and serious injuries are being used as target baselines). To ensure that road safety interventions and actions continue to be effective, the 2021- 2030 strategy will feature three phases of action plans:
Phase 1: 2021-2024 Phase 2: 2025-2027 Phase 3: 2028-2030
As part of Phase 1 of the Action Plan, interim targets for the reduction in the numbers of fatalities and serious injuries have been set for 2024. These include a 15% reduction in the name of fatalities and a 10% reduction in the number of serious injuries.
10 https://etsc.eu/euroadsafetydata/
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