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Cartagena Local Police has released the balance of urban accidents in 2008, making a comparison with the figures obtained in 2007 and shows such as More significantly, the 21 percent reduction in the number of traffic accidents in the city , from 3,043 in 2007 to 2,387 in 2008, with the consequent reduction of deaths in the same at 66 percent.
This, as noted by the Councillor for Citizen Security, Enrique Pérez Abellán, equally important means two things, firstly that there is more awareness by drivers and on the other hand, has increased control and police presence .
The aim is to further reduce accidents, for which the local police are working in conflict zones by the concentration of traffic, such as the Paseo Alfonso XIII, Bastarreche Square or Plaza of Spain.
It has also launched a new initiative, which is the marking of sections called concentration of accidents (former black dots), five in particular, located at three entrances to the Plaza de Severo Ochoa (by Jorge Juan, Round Town of La Union and the North access), access to the Rotunda of St. Lucia on the road from La Union and Park Mall parking Mediterranean.
According to the Director General of Security, Carlos Nieto, solutions to the contentious sections go through three actions, which are to train young people from the responsibility of driving through road safety education, awareness of drivers in their civic duties and the increased police presence.
DATA give cause for optimism
In the balance sheet, which was also present Sgt Attestations section of the local police, Juan Jose Diaz, have announced other significant and very positive, such as reducing accidents and injuries and damage the number of positive blood alcohol controls (6.5%), controls which have increased almost to the 5,000 tests in the municipality.
On the other hand, the balance of 2008 is to add a new element, since the characterization in May last year of driving without a license regulatory offense throws the figure of 230 prosecutions handled in the municipality of Cartagena.
It stresses that the main causes of accidents that have occurred in the city is for missing the signs and do not respect the choice of vehicles, particularly at roundabouts.
SPECIAL TRAFFIC PLAN FOR WORKS
The general director of Public Safety has announced they are developing an alternative plan for the regulation of the streets in a city that will be raised by works for a long year.
Although this plan will be released soon, Carlos Nieto has advanced in the area of the Plaza of Spain, where the works are important but annoying, it is anticipated that the first six months, cutting a quarter of the roundabout, the set between Alfonso XIII and the Alameda de San Antón, while the other three quarters of the circular square cut six months, counting in all cases with the police presence is necessary.
Urban traffic accidents in the city of Cartagena.
Summary table, comparing 2007 and 2008
LOCAL POLICE ATEST
Year 2007
Year 2008
Difference:
Accidents with injuries:
858
829
- 03.38%
Accidents with minor injuries:
760
755
- 00.66%
Serious injury crashes:
92
72
- 21.74%
Accidents with fatalities:
6
2
- 66.66%
Accidents with:
2.185
1.558
- 27.33%
TOTAL ACCIDENTS
3.043
2.387
- 21.56%
Number of injuries:
1.045
1.097
+ 04.97%
Overrides:
121
114
- 05.79%
-
Total ALOHOLEMIAS:
769
718
06.64%
Judicial blood alcohol:
402
519
+ 29.10%
Administrative blood alcohol:
367
199
- 45.78%
Alcohol tests:
184
213
+ 15.76%
Breath tests:
2.879
4.683
+ 62.66%
Positive blood alcohol PVA:
27
Blood alcohol + Infringement:
502
Blood alcohol + in accident:
189
Negative to the test:
12
Blood samples:
14
VEHICLE FLEET Cartagena:
139.428
Total vehicle accident:
5.408
4.523
Census Population:
211.329
214.020
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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