Road traffic fatalities hit 10-year high of 149 in 2025; elderly deaths more than double
The Straits Times
Singapore's road traffic fatalities reached a 10-year high in 2025, with elderly pedestrian deaths more than doubling, prompting increased Traffic Police enforcement. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The Republic’s roads are now at their most dangerous in years, with traffic fatalities hitting a 10-year high of 149 in 2025 compared with 141 in 2016.
There were 142 deaths in 2024.
The number of injured people also increased from 9,342 in 2024 to 9,955 in 2025.
Of great concern to the authorities was the number of elderly who died, with figures that more than doubled from 11 in 2024 to 27 in 2025. All were pedestrians.
To tackle this, the Traffic Police (TP) will step up enforcement such as activating the speed enforcement action in more red-light cameras.
TP said this on Feb 26 when releasing its annual road traffic statistics for 2025.
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