Transport minister François Bausch presented these findings in parliament after DP MP Lamberty raised a parliamentary question on the matter.
In 2016, 32 people died on Luxembourg roads. That number fell to 22 in 2019. There are still no official statistics for 2020.
The main cause for serious traffic accidents was excessive speed. According to Bausch, the decrease in such accidents is not only due to the introduction of speed cameras but also due to mobile speed controls carried out by the police and speed cameras at construction sites. Drivers may be scrutinised at any point, which has positively impacted their driving, says Bausch.
A government analysis has detected an improvement on most roads that are considered "dangerous". These have now been fitted with speed cameras that make drivers slow down.
However, the situation has remained poor in Pleitrange and Weiler-la-tour, while it worsened in Bertrange.
The number of infringements at speed cameras has also fallen. In Dorscheid, for example, 11,500 infringements were recorded in 2017 while in 2020 that tally stood at just 5,600.
Bausch is particularly pleased with the impact of the speed camera that records the average speed between Waldhof and Gonderange. It was introduced in July 2020 and helped reduce the number of fines by half compared to the previous year and even by two-thirds compared to 2018.
