The conclusions of this survey are mixed, and very similar to those of 2025.
1) On the one hand, they conclude that managers of companies with 1 to 49 employees have a better grasp of the issues surrounding road risk than in 2016 (and that this is stable compared with 2025). Today, a growing proportion of managers report that they are more aware of their responsibilities in the event of a road accident involving one of their employees, have included road risk in their company’s Document Unique, have set up road risk prevention initiatives, or simply wish to be better informed. Awareness of the manager’s responsibility with regard to home-work journeys in particular, which was very little identified 10 years ago, has risen significantly compared to 2016.
2) On the other hand, despite these encouraging signals, the extent of the risk remains largely underestimated, and very few managers have already planned preventive actions for the year 2026. Moreover, these are the only two indicators on which no improvement has been observed since 2016.
3) New for 2026, this year’s results underline more than ever the pivotal role played by managers in implementing awareness-raising initiatives in companies with fewer than 50 employees. The experience of a road accident by one of its employees is far from being a marginal phenomenon, and even concerns half of all managers of companies with 10 or more employees. Nevertheless, certain practices likely to increase exposure to risk are still in place, such as contacting an employee during a work trip, or failing to take road conditions into account when organizing a trip.
Against this backdrop, raising managers’ awareness appears to be a particularly decisive lever for encouraging the implementation of preventive measures. It even seems to have a more structuring effect than simply having to deal with a road accident involving an employee: indeed, managers who have been made aware of the issue are more inclined to deploy this type of action than those who have already had to deal with an accident during a work trip.
