Helsinki has completed a full 12 months without a single traffic fatality.

The success is being attributed to a multi-faceted approach by city and residents that involves lower speed limits, public transport improvements, and better street planning.

In the 1980s, the city saw around 30 fatalities per year from hundreds of injurious crashes and collisions. Over the years, as public transportation systems like buses and trams improved, fewer people relied on their cars to get around, and the rates began to fall.

Similarly, cars themselves became safer for the passengers inside of them. But deaths were still routine, as were calls that had to be made to mothers and fathers, next of kin and relatives that someone they loved had died for something as meaningless as a trip to the grocery stor

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