The death toll was 0.2 percent up on 2023, the National Police Headquarters (KGP) has said.
Meanwhile, the number of those injured increased by 2.7 percent, and the number of road accidents rose by 2.8 percent from a year earlier, the National Police Headquarters said, as cited by state news agency PAP.
The Polish justice ministry announced earlier this year that it had completed work on a proposal to impose stricter penalties on traffic offenders.
The measure, dubbed Stop Road Hogs, includes harsher punishments for violations such as lifetime driving bans and severe penalties for drunken drivers.
Deputy Justice Minister Arkadiusz Myrcha has said that those violating court-imposed driving bans would face particularly serious consequences under the new regulations.
Myrcha said in mid-March that the draft legislation would be submitted to parliament "in the coming weeks."
At the start of 2022, stricter traffic rules took effect in the country with tougher fines for drivers as part of efforts to improve road safety.
Under rules that took effect in the country in May 2021, drivers must give priority to pedestrians who are about to step onto a crosswalk, as well as those who are already on it.
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Source: PAP, KGP