The authority’s findings are based on data gathered from Portugal’s PSP and GNR police forces.
Fatalities were thus up 9.9 percent year-on-year against a 5.3 percent rise in road accidents.
A total of 68,845 accidents were logged between January and July this year, up 3,472 on the first seven months of 2014.
There was also a 5 percent increase in serious injuries over the period with a 57-person rise taking the total of those suffering injuries requiring long-term rehabilitation standing at 1,212 through to July.
Fatalities include those who either died at the site of the accident or en route to hospital.