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International Day
It is no secret that more than 100 people die in traffic accidents in Lithuania every year. Deaths on the road are a concern in all parts of the world.
In 2005, the United Nations and the World Health Organization passed a major resolution calling on national governments to commemorate those killed in traffic accidents each year on the third Sunday in November to draw attention to accident victims. newspapers. Lithuania has been commemorating this day since 2005, taking into account the appeal.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 million people die in traffic accidents on our planet each year. people, 50 million. injured and many of them remain disabled. More than 3,000 are lost per day. people.
According to the Lithuanian Highway Police Service, in 2019, 186 people died on Lithuanian roads. According to the data updated by the Lithuanian Highway Police Service on November 10, 2020, there were 2,572 road accidents in Lithuania in ten months this year, in which 2,975 people were injured and 135 died.
For 30 years, from 1990 to 2019, according to experts, more than 15,000 people died on Lithuanian roads. people.
Ignore the traffic rules
According to Remigijus Lipkevičius, director of the Lithuanian Southeast Highway Administration, the three most important links in traffic are the road, the car and the person. However, according to him, the most important thing here is still a person, and the safety of the trip depends on how responsible that person is.
“It is difficult to explain why some road users do not have an instinct for self-protection, that is, they do not believe that an irresponsible traffic accident can happen to them if they do not protect themselves or think of others”, says the director of the Highway Administration of the Lithuanian SE.
The main reason for traffic accidents is not choosing a safe speed or exceeding the speed limit.
The safe speed is not the same as the speed limit, so the driver should always choose a safe speed that is always lower than the speed limit after evaluating the traffic conditions.
There are also other reasons why road users are killed or injured on the roads. The reasons can be various: violations of the bending rules, non-compliance with the safety distance, non-compliance with the requirement to yield to the user of the main road, violations of the pedestrian traffic rules causing an accident, passing the pedestrians in a crosswalk, driving under the influence, etc.
In summary, one of the main causes of traffic accidents is the human factor: non-compliance with road regulations, the lack of awareness and responsibility of many road users.
“Vision – ZERO”
To reduce the number of road deaths, the Government this year approved the Lithuanian Road Safety Program. The strategic objective of this program is to reach 2030. reduce the number of fatalities on Lithuanian roads by 50%, and the main objective is to reduce the number of fatalities by 2050. No road user would die on the roads Lithuanians.
Delfi has previously written that “Vision – ZERO” establishes the obligations and moral aspirations of the state and society that no person should be injured or killed on the roads.
Encourage the commemoration of an important day together
The Lithuanian Highway Administration informs that institutions and organizations are invited to mark their websites with a specially designed logo to commemorate the World Day of Death in Road Traffic and to pay special attention to the memory of those killed in accidents. traffic on this day.
The logo can be downloaded at the following address: https://lakd.lrv.lt/lt/eismo-védelmi/akcija-neuzgesk
And individuals on the Facebook social network are invited to mark their profile photos with said logo. A social media user who types in the word “don’t shut up” in a search for Facebook profile frames will find several profile frames to remember for World Death Day.
The information was prepared in cooperation with the Lithuanian Highway Administration.
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