Last year, 21,339 traffic accidents occurred in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which 117 people died and 6,814 were injured, the Federal Bureau of Statistics announced.
The number of traffic accidents is four percent higher than in 2021, the number of people killed is lower by 41 people or 25.9 percent, and the number of injured people is higher by 195 people or 2.9 percent.
The largest number of dead, 56 of them, belongs to the age group between 25 and 64 years old, which is 47.9 percent of the total number of dead, and the largest number of injured people belongs to the same age group, i.e. 3,648 people or 53.5 percent of the total number of injured.
Observed by month, the largest number, i.e. 2,165 traffic accidents, occurred in December, which is 10.1 percent of the total number of traffic accidents on roads last year.
The most people, 14 of them, died in March.
Of the total number of traffic accidents in the FBiH, there were 16,518 or 77.4 percent with material damage.