Europas tödlichste Länder zum Autofahren

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Von Legitimate-Smokey

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  1. Fluffy-Republic8610 on

    I’ve not seen it in this format. I’m surprised Italy is not higher. The things I’ve seen and experienced on Italian roads will stay with me forever.

  2. TheJewPear on

    It doesn’t surprise me. Two things I’ve noticed on my first day of driving here:

    Many drivers are awful at keeping safety distance behind. They just have no understanding whatsoever of this concept. I’m talking about drivers that will be less than 3 meters behind you on a highway doing 120kph. This is especially true if they think you drive too slowly and there’s just one lane (mind you, I never drive on the left lane, only use it for passing cars and then go back to right/middle).

    And the other common sin is that when drivers pass you from the left (if you’re lucky) they cut right in front of you. They don’t speed nicely ahead and then switch back to your lane, they will just hop back to your lane 20cm in front of you, causing you to break. So again, lack of understanding of safety distance and response times.

    Add to that the fact that most drivers seem to think speed limits are minimum limits and not maximum limits, that 50 means 80 and 80 means 110, and that a lot of them drive mediocre cars with mediocre tires… and you’re gonna get a lot of accidents, and pretty bad ones.

  3. FacetiousInvective on

    As a person who (rarely) drives in Romania and keeps it at a steady 50km/h in cities/villages, it is incredible how big of a line I can make behind me, while having nobody in front basically.. which means most people are going over the speed limit.

    Not just that, but they also tailgate you like crazy. I like to keep at least 10-15m between me and the next car but they stay at like 1 car length..

    I can’t stand impatient drivers.. so naturally I stopped driving for my sanity. I guess all those impatient people are thankful too, since I won’t bother them with my respecting the speed limit.

  4. The_Grinning_Reaper on

    A better metric would be e.g. mileage-based. Per resident really makes no sense as the mode of transport can be quite different. 

  5. Cornflake0305 on

    Just went on vacation in Greece and I can fully understand why their numbers are so high.

    People there drive like absolute morons (especially the dumbasses on mopeds). The infrastructure is weird as hell, some intersections make no sense and the on / off ramps are basically constructed to make the likelihood of accidents as high as possible. Also, lots of people with completely destroyed / ancient and unserviced vehicles.

  6. Having taken a few taxis in Malta, I’m genuinely surprised that it’s so low

  7. s0ngsforthedeaf on

    Most Brits will say that people drive badly. But most of it is either speeding or being impolite (cutting people off etc).

    People follow the laws at junctions and ‘wait their turn’. A lack of doing that seems to be the problem in Europe.

  8. While Estonia isn’t particularly good on this statistic, i went to Rally Poland in 2017. I have never been so consistently scared behind the wheel than i was driving the smaller Polish B roads around the rally.

  9. JadedArgument1114 on

    For Portugal, a big part of it has to be the wide assortment of slow moving vehicles/tractors/etc that force you to pass them in sketchy spots and dummies who park in the road and turn on their 4 way flashers and go into a cafe or whatever.

  10. mightyboosher77 on

    In fairness I’m just back from Portugal and our taxi driver said there were four speed cameras in the algarve and two were broken so wonder if that has anything to do with it?

  11. Professional_Area239 on

    It would be more meaningful to show road deaths per 1million km driven.

  12. Didn’t know it was so high for Latvia, but pretty reasonable since quite a bit of people tend to drive over the speed limit

  13. In Croatia you gotta be careful for ministers on the road. They can literally kill you without consequences for themselves. Last year defence minister was drunk driving and killed some guy. Ruling party is so incredibly corrupt here that he hasn’t even been indicted 11 months later.

  14. Standard-Zone-4470 on

    This is or isnt a valid criticism but imo this statistik is not that meaningfull. Yes it takes the population into account, but not the drivin kilometers. What i mean is, that a country with many residents can have a small amount of deaths bcs they just dont drive therefore seem to be safer. Same country with same death/mio driven km will have a higher deathrate bcs they drive more therefore seem leds save. I dont want to defend anyone, just a critisims on the methode. I for example live in Germany, and as far as i know, do we declare our deaths with death/ mio km driven.

  15. spicyfishtacos on

    I’d love to see the Italy map divided into North and South.

  16. PreviouslyMannara on

    I read “Europe’s deadliest countries for **diving**” and thought “Wow… Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary must have really dangerous lakes or underwater caves”

  17. CorpusCallowesome on

    ahh easter oooo-rope…the place where their inhabitants always say they are from europe as opposed to naming the dump they are from.

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