Authorities report that during the weekend there were more than 850 accidents and 33 deaths

The weekend ended, which for some was long due to the “interference” on Monday, although for others it was not. Despite this, the authorities reported that 418,000 vehicles left the Metropolitan region and 411,000 returned. In addition to the fact that more than 850 accidents were registered with 33 people deceased.

Specifically, the colonel of the Carabineros traffic and highway prefecture, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, told Cooperative Radio that “868 accidents occurred, resulting in 33 deaths and more than 600 injuries”.

This weekend will again be long (three days), so some 300,000 vehicles are expected to leave the capital between Thursday and Friday.

Given this, Rodríguez added that “we are again calling on the population to reiterate that, both this weekend and next and during the winter holidays, that there is also an extension of these for more than three weeks, we are going to continue working on the population to reduce and eradicate these numbers that do not make us happy at all”.

“To become aware”

This year there have been 609 people killed as a result of traffic accidents throughout the country, which gives an average of five deaths daily, according to the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.

portfolio minister, Juan Carlos Munozdetailed that between January and April of last year “540 people died, this year 609”, with 2021 being “the highest in the last decade”.

“This tells us about a problem that is growing and that for the level of development that our country has, it should be decreasing. There is an issue that we have to work on and that we have not taken charge of,” he added.

For her part, the executive secretary of Conaset, Karina Munoz, urged in the same medium a “call to become aware”. “Vehicles that have less than two tons that reach significant speeds, that hitting a pedestrian, a cyclist or a motorcyclist can be and often is fatal,” she said.

Finally, he stated that “the call is to become aware, that today this type of action is causing death; speed and distraction at the wheel are killing people and the call is for us to be aware of it.”