ROAD SAFETY IN GREECE

摘要

Greece, in the south-east of Europe, has 11.1 million inhabitants, and an interurban road network of 41,053 km, from which only 868 km are motorways. Greece has a mountainous mainland and a total area of 131,990 km2. In 2006, the number of vehicles registered in Greece was 7.21 million, approximately double than ten years ago (3.80 million registered vehicles in 1996) consisting of 4.74 million passenger cars, 1.25 million goods vehicles, 0.03 million buses and 1.18 million motorcycles. The Mediterranean climate of Greece allows not only for a significant part of traffic to be carried out by motorcycles and mopeds, during the biggest part of the year, but also an increased pedestrian traffic in the urban network.