The data

Road safety, pedestrian deaths down. Accident deaths among cyclists rising

This is what emerges from the update of the observatory held by the Asaps Sapidata association and the comparison of data from the first 11 months of 2025 with those of 2024

by Davide Madeddu

27 December 2025

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Translated by AI

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3' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

The number of deaths among pedestrians involved in road accidents is falling, while the number of victims among cyclists involved in road accidents is rising. The sad record, in both cases, goes to Lombardy. Black jersey in the first case, while no case in either statistic is recorded in Molise.

The comparison with 2024

Outlining this scenario are the latest weekly monitoring updates from the Asaps - Sapidata Pedestrian Observatory. A comparison with the data for 2024 shows a slight improvement over last year. In 2024, there were 470 pedestrian fatalities. In 2025 as of 30 September, there were 420 pedestrians killed with 256 males and 164 females: 214 were over 65 years old, more than half of the total. 'In the last seven days, six out of twelve deaths involved over-65s,' Asaps wrote in a note. 'There were 43 deaths in January, 31 in February. In March there were 32 deaths, in April the final count was 19, with a downward trend compared to 2024, when there were 24 in the month as a whole. May closed with 22 deaths, with a downward trend compared to May 2024 when there were 36. June saw 31 deaths. In July there were 35. Thirty-five also in August. Record for the year in September with 56 deaths. October closed with 36 deaths. In November, 43 deaths. In December, 37 deaths in 21 days.

Lombardy black jersey

"A total of 383 pedestrians died in the first 11 months of the year 2025, compared to 421 in the year 2024, a decrease of 9%," the report goes on to emphasise. "Lombardy and Lazio (34 in Rome alone) are in first place with 62 deaths. They are followed by Emilia Romagna with 40 and Sicily with 36, Piedmont, Veneto and Campania with 25 and Liguria and Tuscany with 22'.

More cyclists run over

While there is a decline in accidents involving pedestrians, the trend in tragic events involving cyclists is different, where there is an increase.

The starting point for this comparison is the data for 2024, which speak of 185 cyclists killed in accidents. In 2025, reading the data from the Asaps Sapidata cyclist observatory, 'there were 217 deaths among cyclists as of 21 December. Since the beginning of the year, 195 men and 22 women have died'. An increase of 8.3 per cent. Again, most of the victims are over 65, reaching 101 since the beginning of the year.

August the worst month

The month with the worst figure is August, with 30 deaths 'and the worst figure in the last eight years', followed by May with 25 'a negative record in recent years', June with 21 and then 20 in October. Then 19 in April and 12 deaths in January and 15 in February 2025. Then the other months with lower figures but still, as the association points out, worrying.

23 victims of hit-and-runs

"It should be noted that out of 217 deaths, as many as 23 were caused by hit-and-run drivers," writes the observatory, "12 per cent of the total, who fled after killing cyclists. As for the regions in the lead is Lombardy with 46 deaths, then Emilia Romagna with 35 and Veneto with 27. The regions with fewer fatal accidents are Valle d'Aosta, Sardinia and Calabria with 2, Umbria with 1 death. The zero figure is recorded in Liguria, Molise and Basilicata.