Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) More than 6,000 children up to the age of 14 died between 2011 and 2020 in road collisions in the European Union, it has been revealed.
Above the age of 14, 20% of child road deaths during this period were moped riders, the vast majority being boys.
Child road mortality rate in Romania is ten times higher than in Norway, Cyprus and Sweden.
The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), a Brussels-based independent non-profit making organisation, is now calling for specific targets to protect child road users.
