Death toll lower from traffic accidents in Serbia

Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says the number of traffic accidents fell by 17,141 since the introduction of the country's new Road Traffic Safety Law. The death toll from the accidents is now 19 percent lower, according to him. Death toll lower from traffic accidents in Serbia Since December 2009, when the new law came into force, the number of injured in traffic accident and the number of most serious traffic accidents were both reduced by more than 10 percent, Dacic said at the opening of an international meeting - the Decade of Action for Road Safety in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) - held in Belgrade. Dacic stressed that the stricter law on road traffic safety was considered one of the benefits of the European heritage which had saved many lives in Serbia. According to him, constant education of children is of particular importance and in Serbia the protection of children as traffic participants had been made a top priority, to which end traffic police officers had been placed at road crossings in school zones and actions of training children who participate in traffic implemented. Dacic also stressed the importance of sharing experiences between Serbian traffic police officers and their counterparts from Europe, expressing the hope that it would help improve the overall traffic situation. Coming from Serbia and from abroad, the participants of the two-day meeting were also welcomed by Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Milutin Mrkonjic and Minister of Education Zarko Obradovic, as well as by Director of the Traffic Safety Agency Stojadin Jovanovic. Apart from representatives from Serbia, also taking part in the conference were representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Italy, Sweden and Turkey. Ivica Dacic (Tanjug)

Death toll lower from traffic accidents in Serbia

Since December 2009, when the new law came into force, the number of injured in traffic accident and the number of most serious traffic accidents were both reduced by more than 10 percent, Dačić said at the opening of an international meeting - the Decade of Action for Road Safety in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) - held in Belgrade.

Dačić stressed that the stricter law on road traffic safety was considered one of the benefits of the European heritage which had saved many lives in Serbia.

According to him, constant education of children is of particular importance and in Serbia the protection of children as traffic participants had been made a top priority, to which end traffic police officers had been placed at road crossings in school zones and actions of training children who participate in traffic implemented.

Dačić also stressed the importance of sharing experiences between Serbian traffic police officers and their counterparts from Europe, expressing the hope that it would help improve the overall traffic situation.

Coming from Serbia and from abroad, the participants of the two-day meeting were also welcomed by Minister of Infrastructure and Energy Milutin Mrkonjić and Minister of Education Žarko Obradović, as well as by Director of the Traffic Safety Agency Stojadin Jovanović.

Apart from representatives from Serbia, also taking part in the conference were representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Italy, Sweden and Turkey.