The total number of road motor vehicles registered to the traffic reached 23 million 153 thousand 556 by the end of October. Within the total, cars represented 54.1%, followed by small trucks 16.4%, motorcycles 14.3%, tractors 8.2%, trucks 3.7%, minibuses 2.1%, buses 0.9% and special purpose vehicles 0.3%.

In October, 68 069 road motor vehicle registrations were recorded

Within 68 thousand 69 vehicle registrations in October, cars accounted for 63.7%, followed by motorcycles 17.7%, small trucks 11% and tractors 4.6%. Minibuses, buses, trucks and special purpose vehicles constituted 3% of new registrations.

The number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 29.8% compared with the previous month

In October, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 29.8% compared with the previous month. Cars, minibuses, small trucks, trucks and tractors increased by 51%, 8%, 53.9%, 34.8% and 19% respectively. Buses, motorcycles and special purpose vehicles decreased by 8.2%, 16.7% and 13.3%.

The number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 78.6% compared with the same month of the previous year  

In October, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 78.6% compared with the same month of the previous year. Cars, minibuses, small trucks, trucks and motorcycles increased by 134%, 42.1%, 74.4%,109.9% and 21.1% while buses, special purpose vehicles and tractors decreased by 3%, 70.5% and 19.6% respectively.

In the period of January-October, the total number of road motor vehicles in traffic increased by 281 621

While 258 thousand 848 road motor vehicles were withdrawn, 540 thousand 469 road motor vehicles were added in January-October period. Hence, the total number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 281 thousand 621.

919 501 road motor vehicles handed over in October

Among 919 thousand 501 vehicles handed over⁽¹⁾, cars accounted for 73.4% followed by small trucks 15.4%, motorcycles 4.1% and tractors 2.8%. Minibuses, buses, trucks and special purpose vehicles constituted 4.3% of the handed over motor vehicles in October.

The ratio of cars registered using diesel was 37.8%

At the end of October, among 12 million 515 thousand 365 registered cars, the share of diesel-fuelled cars was 37.8% followed by LPG-fuelled cars with 37.5% and gasoline-fuelled cars with 24.3%. The share of electric or hybrid cars is 0.1% and the cars with unknown⁽²⁾ fuel type was 0.3%.

In October, 43 393 cars were registered to the traffic

In terms of the distribution of trademarks for the 43 thousand 393 new registered cars in October, Renault  recorded 14.6%, Volkswagen 11.1%, Fiat 10.4%, Hyundai 6.9%, Toyota 6.2%, Honda 5.9%, Opel 5.3%, Peugeot 4.5%, Skoda 4.5%, Ford 4.2% and the other trademarks 26.5% of the total.

Most frequent engine size was 1501-1600 for registered cars

Within 300 thousand 979 cars registered to traffic in January-October period, 38.5% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 28.2% had 1401-1500, 13.1% had 1301-1400, 12.7% had 1300 or less, 6.2% had 1601-2000, 1.1% had 2001 and above engine size.

Most frequent colour was white for registered cars

Within 300 thousand 979 cars registered to traffic in January-October period, 54% of them were white, 24.1% were grey, 6.9% were black, 5.6% were red and 9.4% were in other colours.

The next release on this subject will be on January 6, 2020. 
                                                                                                                                                                

EXPLANATIONS

(1) Road motor vehicles handed over are that the owners of them had changed through the notaries for one time or more.

(2) Unknown includes the cars for which the type of fuel field in the license was entered incorrectly or left blank.

In Turkey, 182 thousand 669 traffic accidents involving death or injury occurredIn the road network of Turkey, 1 million 202 thousand 716 traffic accidents occurred in total during year 2017. Among all those accidents 1 million 20 thousand 47 accidents were with material loss and 182 thousand 669 were with death or injury. For the accidents involving death or injury, 74.4% of them occurred at inhabited area and 25.6% occurred at uninhabited area.

7 thousand 427 persons were killed and 300 thousand 383 persons were injured

As a result of 182 thousand 669 accidents involving death or injury occurred in Turkey during year 2017, 3 thousand 534 people were killed at accident scene and 3 thousand 893 people who were injured at traffic accident and sent to health facilities died within 30 days after the accident due to related accident and its impacts. 48.6% of deaths and 66.8% of injuries occurred at inhabited area whereas 51.4% of deaths and 33.2% of injuries occurred at uninhabited area.

43.2% of the people killed in traffic accidents were drivers

Among the people killed in the accidents occurred in the road network of Turkey during year 2017, 43.2% of them were drivers, 34.2% were passengers and 22.6% were pedestrians. Concerning the gender breakdown of people killed 76% of them were men and 24% were women; whereas for the people injured 68.9% of them were men and 31.1% were women.

Driver faults were the primary fault causing traffic accidents with 89.9% share 

Looking at the 213 thousand 325 total faults causing accidents involving death or injury in Turkey during year 2017, it was observed that 89.9% of faults were driver faults, 8.5% were pedestrian faults, 0.7% were road faults, 0.5% were vehicle faults and 0.4% were passenger faults.

294 thousand 515 vehicles were involved in accidents with death or injury

In Turkey, the distribution of 294 thousand 515 road motor vehicles involved in accidents with death or injury was cars 52.7%, small trucks 15.7%, motorcycles 15.2%, minibuses 3.1%, trucks 2.9%, trailers 2.6%, buses 2.2%, tractors 1.1% and the other vehicles 4.5% during year 2017.

Accidents involving death or injury occurred most in July least in February

In Turkey by year 2017 looking at the monthly distribution of 182 thousand 669 accidents involving death or injury, accidents most frequently occurred in July with 11% share whereas accidents had least frequently occurred in February with 5.6% share. Regarding the distribution among the days of the week, accidents involving death or injury most frequently occurred on Saturdays with 15.1% share and least frequently on Tuesdays with 13.7% share.

67.4% of accidents involving death or injury occurred at daytime

Concerning the 182 thousand 669 accidents involving death or injury occurred in the road network of Turkey, 67.4% of accidents occurred at day, 30% occurred at night and 2.6% occurred at twilight.

The next release on this subject will be in June 2019.
                                                                                                                                  
EXPLANATIONS

Data of road traffic accidents are compiled from the administrative records of General Directorate of Public Security (GDPS) and General Command of Gendarmerie (GCG) and published annually by Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) according to Official Statistical Programme (OSP). The accidents with material loss which are documented by people involved in accidents are also included to total number of accidents.

Until year 2015 the number of persons killed in road traffic accident statistics included the deaths only at accident scene. As the work carried out to harmonise the statistics of persons killed at road traffic accidents with the international definitions has been completed in coordination with General Directorate of Public Security, General Command of Gendarmerie, Ministry of Health and Turkish Statistical Institute; statistics on the people who were injured at road traffic accidents and sent to health facilities who died within 30 days after the accident due to related accident and its impacts are included in the statistics and submitted to users since 2015.

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