pre 17 godina
Typically Worldbank to claim that private companies will do better than the government. In fact it doesn't make that much difference: private companies will often provide inferior quality when there is inadequate supervision - just as government employees without inadequate supervision. It might be better to stress building expertise and to experiment with decentralisation where local expertise seems available.
pre 17 godina
I think the quality of roads is a factor to general poor standard of driving.
One is example is the driving 'line' - drivers are prone to avoiding pot holes in the road - meaning they swerve into other lanes without warning - even into the lanes of oncoming traffic.
The blase attitude towards seatbelts is also a factor - there are no accurate statistics on how many lives would have been saved if seatbelts had been used. The media are also culpable for NEVER EVER mentioning whether persons involved in an accident were wearing seatbelts. Yes in a way that is 'advocacy' journalism, but when people see those horrible images they need to understand there is a way to make a person and their family safer, if only marginally safer.
The new traffic law and the system of points is another issue. It seems to me that the main problem is whether the police is applying the law, rather, whether they are ordered to do so. Many of the rules in the new traffic law come from European experience. But we have a much worse record.
For this reason only draconian and radical laws, harsher than the EU norm and complete implementation of these laws by the police and judiciary will have the proper effect.
Once the statistics become normal, we can relax the extreme implementation.
As usual its a question of political will.
pre 17 godina
Interesting article.
I would like to see if there are any breakdowns (pardon the pun) of figures pertaining to causes. Were people killed generally not weating seatbelts or had they been drinking?
What are the age groups of the most fatalities and the types of roads where accidents most commonly take place?
I have to say that being driven in Serbia and in Naples felt about the same on the safety level - both were fairly nerve wracking.
The other aspects that spring to mind are how seriously the police enforce traffic laws. And how to stop unroadworthy vehicles going on the roads.
As well as a major public safety campaign and enforcement of laws and regulations such as a complete ban on alcohol when driving and the compulsory wearing of seatbelts, what about making sure that people who drive have the means to maintain their vehicles?
If people don't have much money but have to drive, they are not going to go for the proper checks if the cost is prohibitive. Maybe the government could hold some sort of vehicle check amnesty? Just an idea.
Last time I was there there were virtually no cabs with seatbelts. That's really wrong.
Children being driven don't have a choice to make their journey as safe as possible. There should be so many more compulsory actions for road safety.
As for the roads and driving in Montenegro... the main ones seem much better, but the mountain roads are simply terrifying at times.
In Central London the traffic sometimes moves slower than a horse drawn cart! I'm sure it's the same in Belgrade.
The congestion tax was hugely unpopular but it has made a massive difference to the amount of traffic in London.
pre 17 godina
The fatality is not due to bad road conditions, it's more about the level of driving skill.
'A bad work man will always blame his tool'
Point is, after living in the balkans 10 years, I have been involved in multiple car crashes, most ending with fatality, because of bad driving and serious lack of understanding of defensive driving.
Most fatalities caused in balkan countries are as follows according to my experience;
1. Overtaking regardless of the oncoming car.
2. Ovetaking on a blind bend, meaning for none english speakers, overtaking on a bending road and not knowing what is oncoming.
3. No enforcement of traffic laws by the Police and a ridiculous issue of letting 'E' registered vehicles do has they please as if they were diplomats, which they are not. Most own a hamburger stall in a city but have a residential address abroad.
4. Fully maintained trucks, my experience, almost driving into the back end of truck with no lights operable.
Conclusion: Don't blame the roads, blame the drivers, then the police. The illuminated characteristic similar to Italy is a 'I don't care' attitude and the awareness for other drivers is minimal.
Teh police have to get tough on road traffic violations, otherwise all this is just air-talk.
Considering DS is stealing money worst than the Milosevic regime i doubt for quick solutions.
Kosovo is the worst, 80% from 1999 were issued fake licences.
pre 17 godina
I think the quality of roads is a factor to general poor standard of driving.
One is example is the driving 'line' - drivers are prone to avoiding pot holes in the road - meaning they swerve into other lanes without warning - even into the lanes of oncoming traffic.
The blase attitude towards seatbelts is also a factor - there are no accurate statistics on how many lives would have been saved if seatbelts had been used. The media are also culpable for NEVER EVER mentioning whether persons involved in an accident were wearing seatbelts. Yes in a way that is 'advocacy' journalism, but when people see those horrible images they need to understand there is a way to make a person and their family safer, if only marginally safer.
The new traffic law and the system of points is another issue. It seems to me that the main problem is whether the police is applying the law, rather, whether they are ordered to do so. Many of the rules in the new traffic law come from European experience. But we have a much worse record.
For this reason only draconian and radical laws, harsher than the EU norm and complete implementation of these laws by the police and judiciary will have the proper effect.
Once the statistics become normal, we can relax the extreme implementation.
As usual its a question of political will.
pre 17 godina
Interesting article.
I would like to see if there are any breakdowns (pardon the pun) of figures pertaining to causes. Were people killed generally not weating seatbelts or had they been drinking?
What are the age groups of the most fatalities and the types of roads where accidents most commonly take place?
I have to say that being driven in Serbia and in Naples felt about the same on the safety level - both were fairly nerve wracking.
The other aspects that spring to mind are how seriously the police enforce traffic laws. And how to stop unroadworthy vehicles going on the roads.
As well as a major public safety campaign and enforcement of laws and regulations such as a complete ban on alcohol when driving and the compulsory wearing of seatbelts, what about making sure that people who drive have the means to maintain their vehicles?
If people don't have much money but have to drive, they are not going to go for the proper checks if the cost is prohibitive. Maybe the government could hold some sort of vehicle check amnesty? Just an idea.
Last time I was there there were virtually no cabs with seatbelts. That's really wrong.
Children being driven don't have a choice to make their journey as safe as possible. There should be so many more compulsory actions for road safety.
As for the roads and driving in Montenegro... the main ones seem much better, but the mountain roads are simply terrifying at times.
In Central London the traffic sometimes moves slower than a horse drawn cart! I'm sure it's the same in Belgrade.
The congestion tax was hugely unpopular but it has made a massive difference to the amount of traffic in London.
pre 17 godina
The fatality is not due to bad road conditions, it's more about the level of driving skill.
'A bad work man will always blame his tool'
Point is, after living in the balkans 10 years, I have been involved in multiple car crashes, most ending with fatality, because of bad driving and serious lack of understanding of defensive driving.
Most fatalities caused in balkan countries are as follows according to my experience;
1. Overtaking regardless of the oncoming car.
2. Ovetaking on a blind bend, meaning for none english speakers, overtaking on a bending road and not knowing what is oncoming.
3. No enforcement of traffic laws by the Police and a ridiculous issue of letting 'E' registered vehicles do has they please as if they were diplomats, which they are not. Most own a hamburger stall in a city but have a residential address abroad.
4. Fully maintained trucks, my experience, almost driving into the back end of truck with no lights operable.
Conclusion: Don't blame the roads, blame the drivers, then the police. The illuminated characteristic similar to Italy is a 'I don't care' attitude and the awareness for other drivers is minimal.
Teh police have to get tough on road traffic violations, otherwise all this is just air-talk.
Considering DS is stealing money worst than the Milosevic regime i doubt for quick solutions.
Kosovo is the worst, 80% from 1999 were issued fake licences.
pre 17 godina
Typically Worldbank to claim that private companies will do better than the government. In fact it doesn't make that much difference: private companies will often provide inferior quality when there is inadequate supervision - just as government employees without inadequate supervision. It might be better to stress building expertise and to experiment with decentralisation where local expertise seems available.
pre 17 godina
The fatality is not due to bad road conditions, it's more about the level of driving skill.
'A bad work man will always blame his tool'
Point is, after living in the balkans 10 years, I have been involved in multiple car crashes, most ending with fatality, because of bad driving and serious lack of understanding of defensive driving.
Most fatalities caused in balkan countries are as follows according to my experience;
1. Overtaking regardless of the oncoming car.
2. Ovetaking on a blind bend, meaning for none english speakers, overtaking on a bending road and not knowing what is oncoming.
3. No enforcement of traffic laws by the Police and a ridiculous issue of letting 'E' registered vehicles do has they please as if they were diplomats, which they are not. Most own a hamburger stall in a city but have a residential address abroad.
4. Fully maintained trucks, my experience, almost driving into the back end of truck with no lights operable.
Conclusion: Don't blame the roads, blame the drivers, then the police. The illuminated characteristic similar to Italy is a 'I don't care' attitude and the awareness for other drivers is minimal.
Teh police have to get tough on road traffic violations, otherwise all this is just air-talk.
Considering DS is stealing money worst than the Milosevic regime i doubt for quick solutions.
Kosovo is the worst, 80% from 1999 were issued fake licences.
pre 17 godina
Interesting article.
I would like to see if there are any breakdowns (pardon the pun) of figures pertaining to causes. Were people killed generally not weating seatbelts or had they been drinking?
What are the age groups of the most fatalities and the types of roads where accidents most commonly take place?
I have to say that being driven in Serbia and in Naples felt about the same on the safety level - both were fairly nerve wracking.
The other aspects that spring to mind are how seriously the police enforce traffic laws. And how to stop unroadworthy vehicles going on the roads.
As well as a major public safety campaign and enforcement of laws and regulations such as a complete ban on alcohol when driving and the compulsory wearing of seatbelts, what about making sure that people who drive have the means to maintain their vehicles?
If people don't have much money but have to drive, they are not going to go for the proper checks if the cost is prohibitive. Maybe the government could hold some sort of vehicle check amnesty? Just an idea.
Last time I was there there were virtually no cabs with seatbelts. That's really wrong.
Children being driven don't have a choice to make their journey as safe as possible. There should be so many more compulsory actions for road safety.
As for the roads and driving in Montenegro... the main ones seem much better, but the mountain roads are simply terrifying at times.
In Central London the traffic sometimes moves slower than a horse drawn cart! I'm sure it's the same in Belgrade.
The congestion tax was hugely unpopular but it has made a massive difference to the amount of traffic in London.
pre 17 godina
I think the quality of roads is a factor to general poor standard of driving.
One is example is the driving 'line' - drivers are prone to avoiding pot holes in the road - meaning they swerve into other lanes without warning - even into the lanes of oncoming traffic.
The blase attitude towards seatbelts is also a factor - there are no accurate statistics on how many lives would have been saved if seatbelts had been used. The media are also culpable for NEVER EVER mentioning whether persons involved in an accident were wearing seatbelts. Yes in a way that is 'advocacy' journalism, but when people see those horrible images they need to understand there is a way to make a person and their family safer, if only marginally safer.
The new traffic law and the system of points is another issue. It seems to me that the main problem is whether the police is applying the law, rather, whether they are ordered to do so. Many of the rules in the new traffic law come from European experience. But we have a much worse record.
For this reason only draconian and radical laws, harsher than the EU norm and complete implementation of these laws by the police and judiciary will have the proper effect.
Once the statistics become normal, we can relax the extreme implementation.
As usual its a question of political will.
pre 17 godina
Typically Worldbank to claim that private companies will do better than the government. In fact it doesn't make that much difference: private companies will often provide inferior quality when there is inadequate supervision - just as government employees without inadequate supervision. It might be better to stress building expertise and to experiment with decentralisation where local expertise seems available.
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