As for the basic reason of fault rate in the traffic accidents, 99 stemmed from human factor such as driver’s fault, pedestrians and passengers
A total of 51 thousand 869 people lost their life, of these 44 thousand at the incident place in the wake of 1 million 518 thousand traffic accidents within last 10 years in Turkey, according to media analyze of Ajans Press compiled from the National Security Directorate.
A total of 96 thousand 860 news were found to have underscored of the traffic accidents between the years 2006 – 2016 in the research of Ajans Press and PRNet. As for the inspection of ITS Medya portal the number of 719 thousand 668 news published about traffic accidents in the last three years. When the most spoken headlines of media are analyzed, traffic accidents ranked atop.
As the number of 1,2 million people lost their lives across the world, meanwhile over 50 million people were injured per annum. The socio-economic cost of traffic accidents became $518 billion globally. 99 percent of fault rate in the traffic accidents stemmed from human factor such as driver’s fault, pedestrians and passengers. The traffic accidents with injuries happened mostly in July and least in February months. In terms of day, the traffic accidents happened mostly on Saturdays and least on Tuesdays. The traffic accidents between the years 2006-2016 are as follows:
| Year | Total Accident | Death | Injured | News Unit |
| 2006 | 728.755 | 4.633 | 169.080 | 9.481 |
| 2007 | 825.561 | 5.007 | 189.057 | 7.851 |
| 2008 | 950.120 | 4.236 | 184.468 | 8.596 |
| 2009 | 1.053.346 | 4.324 | 201.380 | 8.643 |
| 2010 | 1.106.201 | 4.045 | 211.496 | 9.259 |
| 2011 | 1.228.928 | 3.835 | 236.074 | 9.466 |
| 2012 | 1.296.634 | 3.750 | 268.079 | 9.418 |
| 2013 | 1.207.354 | 3.685 | 274.829 | 8.641 |
| 2014 | 1.199.010 | 3.524 | 285.059 | 8.605 |
| 2015 | 1.313.359 | 7.530 | 304.421 | 8.684 |
| 2016 | 1.400.000 | 7.300 | 303.812 | 8.216 |
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