Deputy Chief of the Romanian Police Eduard Miritescu on Wednesday said that Romania has witnessed a 60% decrease from 2019 in the number of serious road traffic accidents, and in terms of road deaths, the decrease is 30%.
"Romania has set clear objectives under its national road safety strategy 2022-2030, namely a reduction by 50% by 2030 of the number of people killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents from 2019. I can tell you that at this moment, Romania is already meeting that target (...) and at this moment we are already seeing a 60% decrease from 2019 in the number of serious accidents, and in deaths in serious accidents we are seeing a 30% decrease from 2019," said Miritescu said in a press statement at the headquarters of the Automatic Road Traffic Monitoring Centre in Bucharest.
He said that Romania must reach the 50% reduction target by 2030 although accidents with material damage have increased slightly. However, the number of deaths in serious accidents also decreased by 12.5% from 2024 and by 16% from 2023.
"At European level, for 2024, in terms of mortality per million inhabitants, Romania is among the first places, but I want to make the following clarification: in 2019, in Romania there were 96 deaths per million inhabitants, and in 2024 it decreased to 78 people per million inhabitants. The European average has not decreased by the same percentage, it has fallen from 51 people per million inhabitants to 44 in 2025," Miritescu said.
He added that during the last three years, the same five main causes of serious road accidents have remained constant, namely pedestrian indiscipline, speed, riding indiscipline, and failure to yield the right of way, which also indicates the key areas where preventive and combatting actions must be taken to achieve the set objective.
"The fact that over 74% of the vehicle fleet in Romania is over 12 years old confirms the predominance of those vehicles with a lower standard of safety and assistance for passengers," Miritescu said.
He added that in the last three years, more than 50,000 driving licenses have been cancelled for various reasons.
"Also in this period, these rights were regained by the people whose right was cancelled, but out of the 20,000 people, in 825 cases they relapsed, that is, they committed traffic offences in terms of alcohol consumption. We are already thinking of tools and mechanisms that will lead to the alleviatesuch situations and to no longer encounter such cases."
Senior official with the Ministry of Internal Affairs Bogdan Despescu said that the inauguration of the headquarters of the Automatic Road Traffic Monitoring Centre is a concrete step in modernising the way safety is managed on public roads.
"This is where the automatic road traffic monitoring centre operates - a newly established structure. And today we see it functional and operational. In this centre we analyse the deviations caught with the automatic systems within the e-segur project, and the centre's activity directly contributes to increasing traffic discipline and especially to saving lives," said Despescu.
He added that beyond tatistics, it must be said that behind each number there is a life, there is a family and that for each accident with a serious consequence there are police officers who analyse in particular the circumstances, the driver's past and from case to case the problems and the need for solutions are identified to avoid such cases in the future.
The Automatic Road Traffic Monitoring Centre visualises and analyses the recordings made with approved technical means (CCTV cameras) in order to penalise crimes and report criminal actions.
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