Road traffic accidents by light conditions and severity (fatal, serious and slight only)
Published observations with their sources, definitions and missing values.
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Road traffic accidents by light conditions and severity (fatal, serious and slight only), Island of Mauritius, 2024
Unit: accidents
| Light | Fatal | Serious | Slight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day light | 58 (provisional) | 156 (provisional) | 1,181 (provisional) |
| Dawn / dusk | 9 (provisional) | 30 (provisional) | 168 (provisional) |
| Darkness : street lights present and lit | 37 (provisional) | 72 (provisional) | 367 (provisional) |
| Darkness : street lights present but unlit | 5 (provisional) | 11 (provisional) | 56 (provisional) |
| Darkness : no street lighting | 14 (provisional) | 16 (provisional) | 71 (provisional) |
| Not specified | 2 (provisional) | 6 (provisional) | 47 (provisional) |
In 2024 (provisional), the largest group of road traffic accidents on the Island of Mauritius was slight accidents in day light, with 1,181.
Publication status Provisional: 2024. Later releases may revise these figures.
- These are accidents causing casualties. Non-injury accidents are not included in this breakdown. Counts do not measure risk: exposure to each condition is not supplied.
- Counts as published. No percentage is shown: the tables give every count, and the categories' totals are not published alongside them.
- Coverage 2002Fatal accidents (severity breakdown): a fatal accident is one with a death within 30 days of the accident from 2002; before 2002 the limit was 7 days. The total number of accidents is unaffected.
- Coverage 2004As from August 2004 most non-injury road traffic accidents are reported only to insurance companies, not to the police; no breakdown of non-injury accidents by age group or sex exists.
Publication details
Statistics Mauritius
Digest of Road Transport and Road Accident Statistics - Years 2022, 2023 & 2024
accident tables
Published 25 November 2025 · Retrieved 17 September 2026
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