Asaps, 39 children died on Italian roads in 2022

There were 39 (30 boys and 9 girls) children between zero and 13 years of age who died on Italian roads in 2022, ten more than the previous year (+34.5%), according to data provided by the Asaps Observatory, l Polstrada Supporters Association. Eighteen children were transported by car (46.1%), three were cyclists, 15 pedestrians and 3 on cycle-motorcycles. From zero to five years the most affected range with 18 victims, 11 in the range from 11 to 13 years, 10 deaths from 6 to 10 years. The largest number of children, 17, lost their lives on urban roads, 16 on state and provincial roads, three on highways and 3 in fields or agricultural land. Twelve victims were foreign or of foreign origin (30.8%), in 2021 there were eight (27.6%).

In 2022, the Observatory also recorded five children who died “before being born” due to a road accident: two pregnant women who died in the accident and three intrauterine deaths. The highest number of children killed on the roads was recorded by Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna with five victims (in the latter three children lost their lives in an accident), then Piedmont, Sicily, Veneto with four, Campania and Lazio with three , Trentino Alto Adige, Tuscany, Puglia, Abruzzo with two, Valle d’Aosta, Sardinia and Calabria with one. “Asaps – underlines the president Giordano Biserni – insists on remembering that every time a child loses his life on the road, the culprit is always an adult. Our dream is to put only zeros in the boxes of our Observatory. For this the Association will persistently continue its information campaign to protect our children on the roads by appealing to adults, to transport them with the seat according to the rules and respect them with particular prudence when they see them on the roads”.