Sweden is already among those countries with the lowest number of traffic fatalities in relation to its population. This is not enough, however. Swedish road safety work is based on a refusal to accept human death or lifelong suffering as a result of road traffic.

Interim target

The Swedish Parliament decided in June 2009 on a new interim target for road safety, whereby the number of fatalities was to be halved and the number of serious injuries was to be reduced by a quarter from 2007 to 2020.