{"id":4641,"date":"2025-03-09T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/road-fatalities-rise-in-western-greece-and-the-peloponnese-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:09:29","slug":"road-fatalities-rise-in-western-greece-and-the-peloponnese-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/road-fatalities-rise-in-western-greece-and-the-peloponnese-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Road fatalities rise in Western Greece and the Peloponnese in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1263630\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bike_crash_shutterstock_web-320x200.jpg?v=1712917099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bike_crash_shutterstock_web.jpg?v=1712917099\" alt=\"Road fatalities rise in Western Greece and the Peloponnese in 2024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bike_crash_shutterstock_web-960x600.jpg?v=1712917100\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>More road fatalities were recorded in 2024 across the road networks of Western Greece and the Peloponnese, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Western Greece, both traffic accidents and injuries increased compared to the previous year. In contrast, while the Peloponnese experienced a decline in overall traffic incidents and injuries, the number of fatalities rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, in the three regional units of Western Greece, 422 traffic accidents were recorded in 2024, resulting in 52 fatalities and 559 injuries. In comparison, 398 accidents occurred in 2023, leading to 45 fatalities and 480 injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the Peloponnese 256 traffic accidents occurred in 2024, causing 52 deaths and 292 injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/in-depth\/society-in-depth\/1263630\/road-fatalities-rise-in-western-greece-and-the-peloponnese-in-2024\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. More road fatalities were recorded in 2024 across the road networks of Western Greece and the Peloponnese, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority.\u00a0 In Western Greece, both traffic accidents and injuries increased compared to the previous year. In contrast, while the Peloponnese experienced a decline in overall traffic incidents and injuries, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Road fatalities rise in Western Greece and the Peloponnese in 2024\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/road-fatalities-rise-in-western-greece-and-the-peloponnese-in-2024\/#more-4641\" aria-label=\"Read more about Road fatalities rise in Western Greece and the Peloponnese in 2024\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bike_crash_shutterstock_web-960x600.jpg?v=1712917100","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}