During the last two decades, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) placed the Dominican Republic among the first five countries with the highest rate of deaths from accidents of transit.
“We are talking about Dominican Republic currently represents the first place in death by traffic accident. There are 65 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants,” said Héctor López, president of the Dominican Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology.
“Definitely, it is a serious problem that is being experienced because the economic impact and the social drama that an accident represents traffic accident in the population is unsustainable,” added the doctor in conversation with Free Diary.
In his opinion, the pandemic COVID-19 influenced the increase in flotilla of motorcycles in the country due to the excess demand for home services that arose.
“Any grocery store in a neighborhood has five or six bikers“said the orthopedist who hopes that the National Pact for Road Safety recently signed by the president Luis Abinader be fully applied.
Death book
According to him Death book accidental and violent events 2023, compiled by the National Statistics Office (ONE), during the past year, accidental and violent deaths amounted to 4,637, of which 42.0% correspond to deaths due to accidents of transitthat is, 1,949 people, representing an increase of 8.6% compared to 2022.
The men represented the highest percentage with 85.9% of the deaths, while 13.3% were women.
The days of the week with higher percentages of deaths in accidents of transit They were: Sunday, Monday and Saturday, with 24.9%, 17.3% and 15.8% respectively. 58.3% corresponded to crashes and/or collisions 58.3% and 14.0% run overs.
The largest volume of accidents occurred in the months July (9.5%), October (9%) and December (9%).
As for the provinces with higher mortality in accidents La Altagracia, San José de Ocoa and María Trinidad Sánchez are located, with rates of 40.2, 38.0 and 37.7 deaths per one hundred thousand inhabitants, respectively.
Despite the great flow and vehicle park, Saint Dominicthe National District and Santiago are among the provinces with the lowest crude death rate accidents of transit8.3, 8.8 and 11.3 per one hundred thousand inhabitants, respectively.
