BUSINESS & TECH

Car sales suffer seven months of falls

Foreigner.fi 06/Aug/2019

The number of new passenger cars registered decreased by 3.8% in July, which was the seventh consecutive month of decline. Since the beginning of the year, car sales fell by 12.2%.

NEWS

Road traffic accidents claimed 17 lives in January

Foreigner.fi 18/Feb/2020

The number of people killed was higher than in the same period one year before.

BUSINESS & TECH

Passenger car sales fell 5.2% in Finland in 2019

Foreigner.fi 08/Jan/2020

The industry recorded eight consecutive months of declines in sales, which only grew in the last four months of the year.

NEWS

Two children seriously injured in a car fire in a Prisma parking lot

Foreigner.fi 09/Oct/2019

According to the Police, the cause of the fire was the ignition of the tablet with which the older child was playing while the father was buying at the supermarket.  

NEWS

Passenger cars registration down by 17% in August

Foreigner.fi 05/Sep/2019

In the January to August period, the number of passenger cars first registered was 79,492, which is 12.8% down from the year before.

NEWS

Intensified monitoring of drunk driving on holiday home routes this week

Foreigner.fi 28/Jul/2019

Almost a third of the entire year's road deaths occur during the summer. Accidents often involve behaviours such as speeding or drunk driving.

NEWS

Road traffic accidents claimed 24 lives in June

Foreigner.fi 23/Jul/2019

Among the persons who were killed in June there were 4 cyclists. According to Statistics Finland, during the first half of the year 99 persons died and 2,258 suffered injuries in Finnish roads.

NEWS

Road traffic accidents claimed 18 lives in May

Foreigner.fi 18/Jun/2019

Among the persons killed, 5 were cyclists and 1 pedestrian.

LIFESTYLE

King of the forest, guilty of 1,800 car accidents per year

Foreigner.fi 05/Jun/2019

The risk of collision with elks increases in spring. This is because many of them move to summer pastures and also because the year-old fawns run for the first time without their mother…