Committee reacts to rising road deaths

The Serbian Traffic Safety committee has called on the Interior Ministry (MUP) to increase safety control on the roads.

Izvor: B92

Monday, 06.07.2009.

11:40

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The Serbian Traffic Safety committee has called on the Interior Ministry (MUP) to increase safety control on the roads. This comes a new series of fatal accidents recently, with eight people dying in separate accidents only on Sunday. Committee reacts to rising road deaths 131 traffic accidents took place in the country yesterday, with 75 people injured, according to the MUP operative center. Committee Director Damir Okanovic said that while increased accidents are expected this time of year, this large number can be decreased with the proper control. He told B92 that his committee has called on the MUP to increase safety control. The police are also calling on drivers to obey all traffic laws in order to decrease the number of accidents. July and August are months when a lot of people are driving to vacation spots, which leads to more accidents. “Traffic accidents are not a consequence of unexplainable and supernatural forces. This can be stopped. There are measures, systematic ones, such as the construction of safe roads, specific preventive activities, media campaigns and the like. This is the best we can do in the coming two months, which are the most critical in the year, and that is increasing police control,” Okanovic said. He said that in order to prevent traffic accidents, the first thing to be done is for all drivers to wear their seat belts, motorcyclists to wear helmets, and for everyone to obey the speed limits, which would require tighter police control. “We do not understand why the traffic police are tolerating people who do not wear seat belts, taking into consideration at least 200 deaths yearly, which means at least 200 people die because they do not wear seat belts, and about 3,000 suffer injuries. Failure to wear seat belts is one of the four basic fatality factors here and abroad,” Okanovic said. As far as people riding motorcycles are concerned, statistics say that eight out of ten would have survived the crashes had they worn helmets. Motorcyclists are 45 percent more at risk than car drivers, so added attention and caution must be shown by them, and car drivers as well, Okanovic said. Site of one of the deadly crashes on Sunday (FoNet)

Committee reacts to rising road deaths

131 traffic accidents took place in the country yesterday, with 75 people injured, according to the MUP operative center.

Committee Director Damir Okanović said that while increased accidents are expected this time of year, this large number can be decreased with the proper control.

He told B92 that his committee has called on the MUP to increase safety control. The police are also calling on drivers to obey all traffic laws in order to decrease the number of accidents.

July and August are months when a lot of people are driving to vacation spots, which leads to more accidents.

“Traffic accidents are not a consequence of unexplainable and supernatural forces. This can be stopped. There are measures, systematic ones, such as the construction of safe roads, specific preventive activities, media campaigns and the like. This is the best we can do in the coming two months, which are the most critical in the year, and that is increasing police control,” Okanović said.

He said that in order to prevent traffic accidents, the first thing to be done is for all drivers to wear their seat belts, motorcyclists to wear helmets, and for everyone to obey the speed limits, which would require tighter police control.

“We do not understand why the traffic police are tolerating people who do not wear seat belts, taking into consideration at least 200 deaths yearly, which means at least 200 people die because they do not wear seat belts, and about 3,000 suffer injuries. Failure to wear seat belts is one of the four basic fatality factors here and abroad,” Okanović said.

As far as people riding motorcycles are concerned, statistics say that eight out of ten would have survived the crashes had they worn helmets. Motorcyclists are 45 percent more at risk than car drivers, so added attention and caution must be shown by them, and car drivers as well, Okanović said.

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