Accidents on Portugal’s road network have resulted in 460 deaths so far in 2017, according to the National Highway Safety Authority.
The death toll is 53 higher than in the same period of 2016, with the number of accidents registered at the Authority by the police and the GNR, up 1,902 from last year’s 116,340.
The period is between January and November with Oporto registering the most deaths (64), followed by Setúbal (52), Lisbon (46) and Santarém (42).
According to the ANSR, road accidents also caused 40,168 injuries this year, in 2016 the number was 38,204.
The data records deaths that happened at the scene of the accident or on the way to hospital.
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The new statistics however, show that most of the road traffic accidents have happened around the major cities of Lisbon and Porto which would be natural as these are the area's of most population.
Still - we have news of something similar recently from Malta, perhaps learning from Portugal's routines. The Maltese anti-corrruption journalist tragically blown up, her car ending in a field. Having had previous assassinations with no publicity so not bothering to investigate, the Maltese Police initially listed the event as a 'Fatal Agricultural Incident'.