Transport Yearbook 2020

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Transport Sector Development in 2020

INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure expenditures

In 2020, the overall volume of investments into transport infrastructure increased again and reached more than CZK 80 billion. The increase in 2020 was even more substantial than in the previous year, when the increase in absolute figures amounted to CZK 12 billion, i.e. almost 25% of the overall investments. The year-on-year increase for 2020 amounted to CZK 19 billion, which is an increase of more than 30%. The volume of investment expenditures in transport infrastructure in 2020 was the highest in the past 12 years and second highest in the past 25 years. 

In 2018, the year-on-year increase was only 15%, while in 2017, it was only 1.5% and in 2016, the reduction was substantial at 24%. Even despite this very significant reduction, the invested amounts did not reach the volumes of the previous period, in particular the years 2011-2014. Over the past 18 years, the lowest amount was invested into transport infrastructure in 2013 – CZK 27.3 billion, while the highest amount was reached in 2008 when the investments amounted to almost three times more - CZK 83 billion, this being the maximum financial volume of the past 25 years.

Contrary to the previous years, the share of investment financial resources provided by the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure (SFTI) in 2020 was higher again and reached approximately 88%. In recent years, 2019 and 2018, this share was significantly lower. While in 2016 and 2017 this share reached approximately 91%, and in previous periods the financial share exceeded 80%, in 2018 it amounted only to 68% and in 2019 to 77%. The total amount of investments into transport infrastructure from the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure in 2020 reached the value of almost CZK 71 billion, which represents a year-on-year increase of about 50%. Every year, the SFTI budget also provides investment expenditure for building of cycling paths. The total financial volume in years 2015 – 2020 exceeded CZK 1.1 billion, with the highest spending in 2020 amounting to almost CZK 400 million.

In 2020, investment expenditures in transport infrastructure represented 1.4% of GDP (excluding expenditures into local roads and other infrastructure for urban public transport), which is a year-on-year increase of 0.34 percentage points. In 2019, investment expenditures in transport infrastructure reached 1.06%, which is approximately the same level as in 2015. The respective figures for investment expenditures were 0.92% of GDP in 2018, 0.85% of GDP in 2017, 0.95% of GDP in 2016, 1.26% of GDP in 2015, 0.78% of GDP in 2014, 0.71% of GDP in 2013 and 0.87% of GDP in 2012.  As the amount of investment expenditures into infrastructure in 2010 represented 1.7% of GDP, the 2020 value still did not reach the same level and represents approximately 82% of that amount.

There was again an increase in the volume of investment resources spent on roads in 2020. The increase was rather substantial and reached almost 19%. Investment expenditures for this type of infrastructure was the highest in the past 10 years; nevertheless, it still represents less than 75% of the 2009 value. The decreasing trend that followed after 2009 lasted for several years, until 2014. Investment expenditure in class II and class III roads, namely roads in the ownership of regions, stayed about at the same level as in 2019 and amounted approximately to CZK 12.2 billion in 2020. Compared to the previous year, the investment volume was lower by CZK 190 million. The percentage share of total investment costs into the class II and class III roads of the total investment expenditures of 31% was lower year-on-year – in 2019 it was 35% and in 2018 even 46%. Both these values are significantly different from the two previous years, i.e. 2016 and 2017 when these amounted to approximately 25%.  

A very important increase of more than 50% was also observed in investments into railway infrastructure in 2020, but despite this fact, the expenditures did not exceed the value of CZK 31.8 billion from 2015. Investment costs into railway infrastructure were going down from 2009 until 2014, followed by a significant increase in 2015. In 2017 investment expenditures into railway infrastructure represented less than half of the 2015 value and in 2018 and 2019, it was approximately 60%.

As for other investment expenditure in 2020, an increase was recorded in inland waterways infrastructure, the investment expenditures went up by about 12% and also the investments into airport infrastructure increased by 30%. In pipeline transport, the expenditures increased by more than 70%.

Total expenditure for repairs and maintenance of transport infrastructure in 2020 remained at the same level as in the past year. After several years of stagnation until 2013, a subsequent growth for three years until 2016 and a reduction in 2017, the total transport infrastructure repair and maintenance expenditures increased again rather significantly in 2018 and 2019, this by almost 18% and 15% respectively. There were no substantial changes in the 8 years until 2013 and thus this type of expenditures did not follow the steep declining trend in general investment expenditures during the crisis period. The measures aimed at savings did not affect this area too much.

Speaking about infrastructure for individual transport modes, an increase was recorded in railway infrastructure with about 10% and in airport infrastructure where this indicator increased by 36%. Road infrastructure repair and maintenance expenditures on the contrary decreased year-on-year by 7%. The repair and maintenance expenditures in inland waterway infrastructure in 2020 were less than a half of the 2019 value. 

Road infrastructure

Development of the motorway network continued in 2020 by upgrading and construction of the D1 Motorway Prague – Brno – Vyškov - Hulín - Přerov - Lipník nad Bečvou - Bělotín - Ostrava – state border CZ/Poland. The following constructions were put into operation: “Upgrading of D1 – Section 07, EXIT 56 Soutice - EXIT 66 Loket”, “Upgrading of D1 – Section 19, EXIT 141 V. Meziříčí západ - EXIT 146 V. Meziříčí východ”, “D1 Service and Maintenance Centre Mirošovice”, “D1 Průhonice, Noise protection walls at km 6.160 – 7.200” and “D1 Expanding the rest area Studený at km 70.1 - right side”. The following constructions continued on the D1 motorway in 2020: “Upgrading of D1 - Section 02, EXIT 21 Mirošovice - EXIT 29 Hvězdonice”, “Upgrading of D1 - Section 11, EXIT 81 Koberovice - EXIT 90 Humpolec”, “Upgrading of D1 – Section 12, EXIT 90 Humpolec - EXIT 104 Větrný Jeníkov”, “Upgrading of D1 – Section 16, EXIT 119 Velký Beranov - EXIT 134 Měřín” and “D1 Service and Maintenance Centre Přerov” with planned start of operation in 2021. The following construction was launched - “Upgrading of D1 – Section 23, EXIT 168 Devět Křížů - EXIT 178 Ostrovačice” with planned start of operation also in 2021.

Construction of other motorways also continued in 2020. On motorway D0 – the Prague Ring Road, the construction “D0 Modletice, support wall” was put into operation. On motorway D5 Prague – Pilsen – State border with Germany, the construction “D5 expanding the rest area Šlovice at km 83.5 P + L” was put into operation, and on motorway D8 Prague – Ústí nad Labem – state border with Germany, it was the construction “D8 Noise protection wall Úžice, Exit 9”. On the D6 Motorway Prague – Karlovy Vary – Cheb – state border CR/Germany, the constructions “D6 Nové Strašecí – Řevničov” and “D6 Řevničov bypass” were put in operation in 2020, while the construction of “D6 Lubenec bypass” continued, with planned start of operation in 2021. On the D48 Motorway Bělotín - Frýdek-Místek - Český Těšín, the construction “D48 Rybí - GSJ Rychaltice” was put into operation in 2020, while the constructions “D48 Frýdek-Místek bypass, Stage 1” and “D48 Frýdek-Místek bypass, Stage 2” continued, both with planned start of operation in 2022.  

On the D3 Motorway Prague – Tábor – České Budějovice – state border CZ/Austria, the following constructions continued: “D3 0310/I Úsilné – Hodějovice” with planned start of operation in 2024 and “D3 0310/II Hodějovice – Třebonín” with planned start of operation in 2023. On the D7 Motorway Prague – Slaný – Chomutov, the construction “D7 Panenský Týnec – increasing the bypass capacity” continued with planned start of operation in 2021 and the construction “D7 Louny – increasing the bypass capacity” was launched with planned start of operation in 2023. On the D11 Motorway Prague - Hradec Králové - Trutnov – state border CZ/Poland, the constructions continued of “D11 1106 Hradec Kráselové – Smiřice” and “D11 1107 Smiřice – Jaroměř”, both with planned start of operation in 2021.  On the D35 Motorway Úlibice - Hradec Králové - Olomouc - Lipník nad Bečvou, the constructions continued with “D35 Opatovice nad Labem – Časy” with planned start of operation in 2021 and “D35 Časy – Ostrov” with planned start of operation in 2022. On the D46 Motorway Vyškov - Prostějov – Olomouc, the construction of “D46 GSJ Prostějov střed” was lanched, with planned start of operation in 2022. On the D55 motorway Olomouc - Přerov - Otrokovice – Břeclav, the construction of “D55 5505 Otrokovice south-east bypass” continued in 2020 with planned start of operation in 2021 and the construction “D55 5507 Babice - Staré Město” was launched, with planned start of operation in 2023. On the motorway D56 Ostrava - Frýdek-Místek, the construction of “D56 Frýdek-Místek – connection to D48” continued with planned start of operation in 2022.

 Construction of class I roads also continued in 2020. Constructions that were put into operation include for example “I/16 Slaný – Velvary”, “I/58 Příbor – Skotnice”, “I/21 Trstěnice – Drmoul”, “I/21 Nová Hospoda - Kočov, Construction II”, “I/13 Třebušice GSJ (spot defect)”, “I/19 Kámen bypass” or “I/19 Simtany, works on road body”.

More important constructions of class II and class III road implemented in 2020 include for example “II/353 Velký Beranov - bypass”, “II/353 Nové Veselí - bypass” and “II/360 Oslavička – Rudíkov” in the Vysočina region nebo “Upgrading of road  II/358 Litomyšl - Č. Třebová” and “Upgrading of road  II/343 Vršov - Trhová Kamenice” in the Pardubice region. Other important transport investments in the area of road infrastructure in 2020 also include the projects “II/208 Upgrading of road Hlinky – Bochov” in the Karlovy Vary region , “II/169 and II/145 Dlouhá Ves - Radešov, Sections B and C” in the Plzeň region , “II/300 Prkenný Důl - Žacléř – Královec” in the Hradec Králové region, “II/315 border of district Ústí nad Orlicí - Zábřeh – Leština” in the Olomouc region or “Reconstruction and upgrading of road  II/479 Ostrava, Opavská Street” in the Moravia-Silesia region.

Railway infrastructure

Works on upgrading of transit railway corridors continued also in 2020. On the third transit railway corridor CZ/SK state border – Dětmarovice – Přerov – Česká Třebová – Prague – Plzeň – Cheb – CZ/DE state border, the following constructions continued on the section Prague – Plzeň: “Optimisation of the line Beroun (incl.) – Králův Dvůr” with planned start of operation in 2021, and “Optimisation of the line Praha Smíchov (excl.) – Černošice (excl.)”, with planned start of operation in 2022.

On the fourth transit railway corridor CZ/Austria state border – České Budějovice – Tábor – Prague – Ústí nad Labem – Děčín - CZ/DE state border, the following constructions continued: “Upgrading of the line Sudoměřice – Votice” in the section Tábor – Prague with planned start of operation in 2022, and “Upgrading of the line Veselí n.L.- Tábor – Part II, Section Veselí n.L.- Doubí u Tábora, Stage 2 Soběslav - Doubí” in the section České Budějovice - Tábor with planned completion in 2023.

Implementation of the first two projects funded under the Blending Call programme aimed at removing bottlenecks on eight pre-determined sections of the core network in the Czech Republic. It is a combination of CEF resources (Connecting Europe Facility), loan from the EIB and national resources for constructions “Velim - Poříčany, BC” and “Dětmarovice - Petrovice u K. – state border with Poland, BC”.

As a follow-up to the upgrading of railway transit corridors, the upgrading of important railway junctions was also in progress, the purpose of which is to guarantee the same technological parameters as on connecting corridor lines. In the Prague Junction, the construction “Reconstruction of the Negrelli Viaduct” was completed in 2020, which is part of the project “Upgrading of the line Prague – Kladno with connection to the Vaclav Havel Airport”. The implementation of “Optimisation of the line section Praha Hostivař – Praha main station, Part II – Praha Hostivař – Praha hl.n.” continued, with planned start of operation in 2021. In railway junction Pilsen the construction “Junction Pilsen, Construction 3 – fly-over the Domažlice line” was put into operation and the construction of “Junction Pilsen, Construction 5 Lobzy – Koterov” was launched, with planned start of operation in 2024. In 2020, works also continued in the construction “Reconstruction of RST Přerov, Construction 2” with planned start of operation in 2022 and the construction “Upgrading of railway junction Pardubice” was launched, with planned start of operation in 2024.

Projects aimed at ensuring interoperability of selected lines through signalling and interlocking technology implementation represent another example of substantial investments. Deployment of the digital radio system GSM-R in 2020 continued by launching of constructions “GSM-R Votice - České Budějovice”, “GSM-R Pardubice - Hradec Králové – Jaroměř”, “GSM-R Ústí n.L. – Chomutov” a “GSM-R Chomutov – Cheb”, all with planned start of operation in 2023.  Deployment of the European train control system ETCS was also carried out in 2020 – works continued on projects “ETCS Petrovice u Karviné - Ostrava - Přerov – Břeclav”, “ETCS Plzeň (excl.) – Cheb”, “ETCS Přerov - Česká Třebová”, “ETCS Kralupy n. Vlt. - Praha – Kolín” and “ETCS Praha-Uhříněves – Votice”.

Investments into passenger railway station buildings represents another important area, in line with the updated Concept of approach to passenger station buildings approved by the Ministry of Transport at the end of 2019. In 2020, reconstructions of the dispatching buildings were completed for example in Šternberk or Frenštát pod Radhoštěm.

Inland waterway transport infrastructure

Drawing of financial resources in 2020 was again primarily related to implementation of investment projects aimed at improving the parameters of the Vltava waterway between Prague and Mělník, with projects “Modification of the Hořín lock chamber gates”, “Increasing the clearance on the Vltava Waterway”, and “Increasing navigation depth on the Vltava Waterway” underway and a completed project “Upgrading of the approach areas in Štvanice lock”. The project “Road bridge over the Elbe River between Valy and Mělice” was also completed successfully while the construction “Leisure navigation port Veselí nad Moravou” continued. Other smaller investments were also implemented amounting to approximately CZK 42 million, among others the upgraded port for passenger ships in Ústí nad Labem that was put into operation. Substantial funding was also spent on intensive preparation of other investment projects aimed at complex development of the whole network of waterways important for transport purposes. 

Air transport infrastructure

The most important drawing of investment costs at Prague Airport in 2020 was spent on purchase of a land plot, expanding the water treatment plant and contaminated waters treatment plant SOUTH. Other investments were aimed at reconstruction of sorting and X-ray in Terminal 1 and reconstruction of the Praha restaurant and adjacent premises.  The area where taxiways intersect was also reconstructed. A major part of repair and maintenance expenditure on the same airport was spent on repairs of RWY 12/30, repairs of TWY P and general maintenance of RWYs and TWYs.

Regarding other airports, important investments in 2020 include for example building of industrial halls and related infrastructure in the logistics zone, investments into airport utilities network and investments into airport technology at the Brno-Tuřany Airport. At the Pardubice airport, investment expenditures were spent also on purchasing of security equipment, i.e. X-rays and detectors for spot detection of explosives and cameras as well as technical upgrading of the cargo hall. At the Karlovy Vary Airport, investments were spent on small construction works in the terminal building, on construction of light mounted hangars and to increase the number of border control departure posts.

ROAD TRANSPORT FLEET

Based on information from the Central Vehicle Register, the number of motor vehicles registered in the Czech Republic in 2020 increased by 2% and the growth rate slightly slowed down again year-on-year. The total number of registered vehicles including trailers of all types and categories increased by approximately the same percentage and now exceeds 8.5 million.

The number of registered passenger cars again shows a year-on-year increase in 2020 and exceeded the benchmark of 6 million cars. In absolute numbers, this represents an increase of about 124,000 vehicles, which is approximately 2.1%. When compared with the previous year, the growth rate was again slightly slower. As at 1 January 2020, this figure was 5,049,225, i.e. more than 75% of the total number of motor vehicles registered in the Central Vehicle Register, similarly as in previous years. As for the age of passenger vehicles, more than 62% are older than 10 years and more than 78% are older than 5 years. Only approximately 11% of passenger cars are less than 2 years old. This ratio does not show much change year-on-year.

The number of registered road freight vehicles also saw a slight year-on-year increase of over 1%. The year-on-year growth rate decreased also in this category. The share of the newer vehicles, i.e. less than 2 years old is similar as in passenger cars and represents some 10.6%. At the same time, an increase of more than 2% has been observed for vehicles older than 10 years, similarly to the previous year. The number of vehicles in this category has more than doubled since 2010.  The percentage share of freight vehicles older than 10 years of approximately 64% is already higher than in the category of passenger vehicles. This share continues to grow.

In 2020, a rather significant decrease of approximately 10% was observed in the number of registered mini buses and buses; the number of trailers remains unchanged year-on-year while the number of semi-trailers again saw a 7% decrease year-on-year. The number of road tractors has been decreasing over the long term and based on information from the Central Vehicles Register, the numbers went down to less than 20% over the past 12 years. In 2018, the number of road tractors in the Vehicles Register increased  for the first time after 15 years, but the growth was not very significant, only 5.5%. In 2019, this category again saw a decrease by more than 8%. The year-on-year decrease for 2020 was similar at 7%. In the same year, the category of special automobiles again saw a small decrease of almost 4%, i.e. slightly higher than in the previous year while the motorcycles saw an increase of almost 3%.

TRANSPORT

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemics and related declaration of the state of emergency on the Czech territory in 2020, a significant reduction of mobility of persons occurred, leading to a reduction of transport volumes and transport performance in public passenger transport . Total transport performance in passenger transport decreased by approximately 32% and the transported volume by 25%.

In railway transport, the year-on-year decrease for 2020 was more than 30% in the number of transported passengers and approximately 40% in passenger-km; data from the second and the fourth quarter show even bigger reduction. In that period, the number of transported passengers went down to about one half and transport performance expressed in passenger-km went down by 60%. Transport performance values in railway passenger transport were growing for 10 years until 2019 when they reached the highest level since 1993.

In bus transport, there was a decrease of approximately 35% in the number of transported passengers and by almost 50% in transport performance expressed in passenger-km in 2020. Similarly as in railway transport, the decrease was more substantial in the second and the fourth quarter in consequence of governmental Covid-19 related restrictions and reached 55% and almost 50% in the number of transported passengers, almost 70% and 57% in passenger-km. The overall decrease in 2020 in the number of transported passengers was also visible in urban public transport category where it reached about 30%. A change of methodology for urban public transport took place in 2018 due to availability of more precise input data from new technologies and the time series since 2014 was recalculated.

Air transport in 2020 was substantially affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Czech air transport carriers saw a decrease for the whole year of about 84% in both the number of transported passengers and passenger-km. In the second quarter 2020, air transport went down to just 2% of the 2019 performance while in the fourth quarter it was 10%. As for the performance of airports, the drop in the number of passengers served reached annually 80%; in the second quarter the number of passengers served was practically zero, the reports show 1% of passengers served when compared with 2019, for the fourth quarter it was 7% of the 2019 value.

In individual car transport, there was also a decrease in 2020, but it was a less substantial one than in public transport of passengers, amounting to 17%, and the decrease in passenger-km was similar at 15%.

As regards inland waterway transport, where particularly passenger transport of recreational character was involved, a year-on-year decrease of approximately 30% was recorded in the number of passengers carried and of about 25% in transport performance.

Freight transport in 2020 was not significantly affected by the current Covid-19 pandemic; there were almost no pandemic-related restrictions for road freight transport, with exceptions always in place for freight transport even when the borders were almost closed. Overall, there was a year-on-year decrease in the volume of goods carried by almost 10%, but transport performance expressed in tonne-km grew by approximately 27%. Transport volume reached the 2017 level after the mentioned decrease that ended a growth trend lasting three years where the 2019 value was the highest in 20 years. Transport performance on the contrary reached a level similar to 2015 after 4 years of decreasing.    

Data on railway freight transport for 2020 show a decrease both in transported tonnes by approximately 8% and in transport performance by about 6%. In the fourth quarter however, there was an increase in the volume of transported goods expressed in tonnes by 3% and in transport performance in tonne-km by 4%. Even though the volume of railway freight transport in 2018 was the highest in the past 11 years, the trend changed in 2020, with this indicator at its lowest since 2013, and also the value of transport performance in railway transport for 2020 is the lowest since 2014.   

In 2020, there was a substantial increase in transport performance in road freight transport by almost 45% while the volume of transported goods in tonnes decreased by approximately 9%. The increase was caused in particular by a rather sharp growth in international freight transport and thus increasing transport distance. However, despite this rather substantial increase in tonne-km, the transport performance values are roughly at the level of 2015 when the decreasing trend began.

Based on information from the carriers it seems that “availability” of drivers has also improved; this is probably influenced by the fact that there was a partial transfer of bus drivers to freight vehicles in consequence of the substantial reduction in public transport of passengers in particular. Therefore, it is very likely that the Czech carriers execute most of the performance. The transported volume reached the 2017 value and transport performance reached approximately the 2015 value, similarly as the overall freight transport performance in 2020.

The volume of goods carried by air cargo in 2020 saw a substantial decrease, the volume was at 25% of the 2019 value and transport performance decreased by 80%. The decrease in the performance of airports on the Czech territory was not as substantial and reached 25% year-on-year. In inland waterway transport, the volume of tonnes transported decreased by about 20% and transport performance by approximately 11%.

ACCIDENTS

In 2020, the Police of the Czech Republic investigated altogether 94,794 road traffic accidents which represents a year-on-year decrease of 11.9%. The number of accidents continued to increase during the past 10 years until 2019, with the exception of 2011. Year 2009 was significant as there was a change in the legislation (in effect from 1/1/2009), increasing the “threshold” for obligatory notification of the accident from original 50,000 CZK to 100,000 CZK. This was probably one of the reasons why the Police of the Czech Republic investigated the lowest number of accidents in that year. The highest number of accidents was investigated in 1999 – 225,690 accidents.

The number of persons killed in road accidents in 2020 decreased by 15.9% year-on-year and is the lowest since 1961 since when police statistics on traffic accidents are available. In 2020, the total number of persons killed was 460 (death within 24 hours after the accident; EC statistics and other international statistics use number of persons dead within 30 days since the date of an accident – this number reached 518 in the same year). On the contrary, the highest number of persons killed in traffic accidents was registered in 1969 – 1,758 persons.

The number of seriously injured persons decreased by 14.4% in 2020. This indicator in 2020 was again the lowest from the period for which data are recorded. The highest number of persons injured in traffic accidents was recorded again in 1969, with 9,258 injured being almost 5 times more than the 2020 value. The number of slightly injured persons in 2020 also decreased again by 12.8%. The estimated material damage amounted to CZK 6 billion which is a decrease of 12% compared to the previous year. The average material damage in one road traffic accident investigated by the police amounts to approximately 63.000 CZK. Per day, the average amounts to almost 259 investigated accidents, with a material damage of almost CZK 16 million and average number of 1.26 persons killed.

The accidents rate in 2020 was undoubtedly impacted by the fact that the state of emergency was declared by the Czech government in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic for the periods of 13 March to 6 May and 5 October to 31 December and thus the mobility of persons was significantly restricted.

As in preceding years, particularly the motor vehicle drivers were those who caused approximately 80% of accidents during which 91% of the total number of persons killed died. When compared to the previous year, the number of persons killed in these accidents is lower by 91. In accidents caused by drivers of motorless vehicles, 26 persons were killed and 12 persons died in accidents caused by pedestrians.  The number of accidents caused by drivers of passenger cars decreased year-on-year by 13% and the number of persons killed in these accidents also decreased by 51. The number of accidents caused by drivers of freight vehicles without semi-trailer decreased by approximately 12.8%, but the number of persons killed in these accidents increased, although just by 1; in buses and motorcycles, both the number of accidents and number of persons killed decreased. The number of accidents caused by cyclists increased by 3%, but the number of persons killed in these accidents decreased by 7.4%.

In 2020, the number of registered accidents caused under the influence of alcohol was lower by 141 and amounted to 4,486 accidents. 50 persons died during those accidents, i.e. 3 persons less than in 2019. In 261 accidents, the drivers were under influence of other addictive substances; 4 persons died in these accidents. 55 drivers had both alcohol and drugs in their system in these accidents.

As in the previous years, the highest number of traffic accidents was again recorded in Prague, with almost one fifth of all the accident in the Czech Republic happening there. The lowest number of accidents was reported in the region of Karlovy Vary. Despite the highest number of traffic accidents in Prague in the long-term, the number of persons killed - 22 - is substantially lower than in the region of Central Bohemia with 79 persons killed.

As for the distribution of accidents in time, the highest number was recorded in August 2020. August was also the most tragic month with 57 persons killed in traffic accidents. The lowest number of accidents in 2020 was investigated by the police in March, and March was also the month with lowest number of persons killed in accidents. When looking at days of a week, again Friday had the highest number of accidents and also was the worst in the number of persons killed, while Sunday had the lowest number.  

In 2020, 171 drivers of passenger cars, 81 pedestrians, 57 drivers of motorcycles and 40 cyclists were killed in road accidents. The biggest year-on-year decrease is in the category of drivers of passenger cars (‑51 persons killed), drivers of motorcycles (-13) and pedestrians (-12). 

In the same year, again almost 17,000 incidents were recorded where a driver causing the accident drove away from the place of the accident, which is almost 20% of the total number of accidents caused by drivers of motor vehicles. In 2020, the number of these accidents decreased for the first time after a longer period; 5 persons died during these accidents.