Road safety strategy

The road safety strategy is part of the transport strategy and its role is to:

• increase road safety in Iceland

• reduce the number of road accidents

• improving traffic culture

is a policy programme and is set for fifteen years. This programme contains numerical goals as well as priorities and policies on road safety. The current road safety programme is valid from 2024-2038.

Reduction of accidents

The objectives of reducing accidents are two:

• That Iceland will be among the five best European nations in terms of the number of traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.

  • To support the objective, 11 sub-targets are set, each of which relates to reducing the

    • a certain type of accident

    • accidents among a certain group

and thus support the second objective, which is:

• The number of people who died and those who were seriously injured will on average fall by 5% per year by 2034.

Better behaviour goals in the road

The current programme sets out for the first time objectives for better behaviour in traffic which are to contribute to:

• improves traffic culture

• fewer accidents

Laws and regulations

The current road safety plan is for 2024-2038 and you can read more about the goals in it.