The Infotraffic Center of the Romanian Police informs that, on Thursday evening, on DN 6, in the town of Bragadiru in Ilfov county, a motorcyclist hit a pedestrian.
According to a press release, the impact resulted in the death of the pedestrian and the injury of the motorcyclist, who was transported to the hospital.
Road traffic is stopped in both directions, traffic values are increasing.
Romania ranks first in the European Union in terms of the number of deaths in road accidents per million inhabitants
Every year, at least 1,600 people lose their lives on public roads. To understand the magnitude of the tragedy, 1,600 represents the population of a commune.
Thus, Romania ranks first in the European Union in terms of the number of deaths in road accidents per million inhabitants, with an alarming number of 86 recorded in 2022.
And besides the tragedy of the loss of a life, we are also talking about high costs. According to the Romanian Road Authority, at the level of 2017, the costs of a serious accident were close to 770,000 lei (approximately 170,000 euros) at that time, while an accident with victims entailed expenses of almost 5 million lei, i.e. a 1 million Of euro.
Thus, from a simple calculation we see that hundreds of millions of euros are spent because of these accidents.
Pedestrians represent 50% of the people who died in accidents on the street, 27.6% in those that occurred on national roads and 30.9% in events on county roads.
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