The provisional metropolitan France IRTAD rate for car accident deaths
in 2006 is 7.4 deaths/100,000

http://www.securiteroutiere.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/barometre-3.pdf
4703 deaths in 2006 (provisory until April 1, 2007)
http://www.insee.fr/en/ffc/chifcle_fiche.asp?
ref_id=NATTEF02133&tab_id#
63.195.000 inhabitants in metropolitan France mid-2006

An annual decrease of 11,6 %, which places France that way in the 2004
IRTAD datas for OECD :
Netherlands (5,0), Switzerland (5.4), UK (5.6), Norway (5.7), Japan
(6.7),
Denmark (6.8), Sweden (6.9), Germany (7.1), Finland (7.2), France 2006
(7.4),
Iceland (7.8), Australia (7.9), Ireland (8.4), Canada (8.5), France
2004 (9.2), Italy (9.7),
New-Zealand + Austria (10.7), (...) USA (14.5), (...) Greece (19.3).

http://www.cemt.org/irtad/IRTADPUBLIC/we2.html

didier Meurgues