The Times of Malta reported on the front page (April 12) that ‘Malta posts [the] only rise in road fatalities in the EU’. The fact that this is an artefact of the small number of observations, which I have pointedout previously, is also clarified in the report.

The average rate of road fatalities in the EU is 49 per million inhabitants per annum. With a population of about 430,000 and an average road death rate of 16 per annum over the period between 2000 and 2017, Malta’s rate is well below the European average.

Malta’s rate of just over 37 road deaths per million inhabitants is thus about 75 per cent of the European average.

EU roads are among the safest in the world and Malta ranks among the best from among the safest countries in the world.

That, indeed, should have made the headlines.

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