Risky driving is a current social issue which afflicts societies, state governments and
in many cases leads to morbidity when it comes to fatal traffic accidents. There are
various categories of stakeholders that are affected both directly and indirectly such
as governmental emergency services, people involved in road accidents, their
families and lovely ones and insurance organizations.
This study is mainly devoted to interpret the data collected in global scale, in
European Union scale, and in regional scale by examining the paradigm of Greece. It
will be examined the relationship between prosperity and traffic accident mortality
in two dimensions; that is, firstly by comparing different countries for certain
predetermined years, and in the second place, by investigating how an economic
recession may influence the number of road accidents. The data utilized in this text
are retrieved by official organizations: Eurostat, IMF, WHO, ELSTAT (Hellenic
Statistical Authority) and World Bank
The Effect of the Economy on Risky Driving