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Road traffic accidents claimed 11 lives in January 2023

release | Statistics on road traffic accidents 2023, January

According to preliminary data of Statistics Finland, 162 accidents involving personal injury happened in road traffic in January 2023. In them, 11 persons were killed and 203 persons injured. The number of persons killed was one higher and that of persons injured 42 lower than in January 2022. The data were compared with the previous year's preliminary data.

Key selections

  • Of those who died in January, four were men and seven were women.
  • In January, more women than men died in road traffic accidents. This has last happened in February 2019.

Road traffic accidents in January

There were 162 road traffic accidents resulting to personal injury in January 2023. Road traffic accidents caused the death of 11 and injury of 203 persons. Of the persons who were killed, eight travelled by passenger car. Killed pedestrians numbered two and cyclists one.

Accidents that led to personal injury in road traffic by county, January 2023, preliminary data

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