“How much of us put in to prevent this accident rate? Because when we had the coronavirus pandemic, we had the vaccine. We don’t have it here. The vaccine is here” and he pointed to his temple with his finger.
In this way, the president of the National Road Safety Unit (Unasev), Alejandro Draper, presented the data on road accidents for the year 2022 and also for the first fortnight of 2023. Until January 16 in the morning, the date on which At the end of the entity’s report, 22 people died, one less than in the first half of 2022, which was 23 people.
12 of these deaths occurred on national routes while 10 belong to departmental jurisdiction. 16 deaths occurred due to collisions between vehicles while four were hit by pedestrians and two due to oversight.
But, in addition to presenting the figures, Draper called “to the conscience” of the drivers. “We are not talking about accidents, we are talking about claims. They are caused by humans“, he assured. “There is an urgent need to have a greater presence at the teaching level of road safety. It’s one of our concerns,” she added.
“We have to start because we cannot believe that the accidents that happen and that we cannot believe that there is a human being who does this nonsense. It is the first reflection that we do. it’s unusual“, he added.
At one point, Draper grabbed the cell phone and held it up. And that? Distraction. If we see someone driving with a revolver, what do we do? We call 911. We make the complaint. We are tired of seeing people driving with this (the cell phone), with this weapon. whatWe become aware and say “are we going to do something?” No. And because? If we are going to avoid an accident. We see him on the road. We are convinced that it can be done and that it is in us as it has been done all over the world..”
Measures
Draper remarked that 300,000 more vehicles passed through the tolls this fortnight than in 2022 and more than 3,000 cars were sold in 2022 compared to 2021. For his part, he assured that the agencies “are taking all the measures”. “If I tell you that there were 300,000 more passages for the toll, we are going to say “let’s be aware”. Luckily there are more cars sold but we also have to know how to deal with it. How to deal with it? A second route of route 3 was inaugurated, a section of route 8 and 11. The accesses in Piriápolis, the 100 roundabouts “, He listed.
