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WDoR2018 - 37,628 traffic accidents with 298 fatal outcomes in BiH in 2017

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, November 18 (FENA) - The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year – to remember the many millions killed and injured on the world’s roads, together with their families, friends and many others who are also affected.

It is also a Day on which we thank the emergency services and reflect on the tremendous burden and cost of this daily continuing disaster to families, communities and countries, and on ways to halt it.

Road deaths and injuries are sudden, violent, traumatic events. Their impact is long-lasting, often permanent. Each year, millions of newly injured and bereaved people from every corner of the world are added to the countless millions who already suffer. The cumulative toll is truly tremendous.

The grief and distress experienced by this huge number of people is all the greater because many of the victims are young, because many of the crashes could and should have been prevented and because governments’ and society’s response to road death and injury and to bereaved and injured victims is often inadequate, unsympathetic, and inappropriate to a loss of life or quality of life.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of commemorating millions of people who have lost their lives or have been injured in road accidents on November 18, and to express sympathy with all those who remain behind, their family members and friends.

This year, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims is marked under the slogan "Roads have stories" -  #WDoR2018 - the slogan for WDoR 2018, to highlight that roads are not just a way to get from point A to point B, but that roads often have their tragic stories that have to be remembered. This year's theme is based on the second pillar of the Decade's Global Road Safety Action Plan (2011-2020) - safer roads and mobility.

Throughout the world, one traffic accident occurs every second, and almost one million people a year lose lives on roads around the world. Over the past 25 years, over 30 million people have lost their lives on the roads around the world, while a billion have been injured, which is equal to the population of the 125 largest cities in the world.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, during 2017, there were 37,628 traffic accidents in which 298 people lost their lives, 12 of them were children, 10,229 persons were injured, of whom 1,608 suffered serious bodily injuries. Unadjusted speed and driving under the influence of alcohol are the most common causes of traffic accidents, it is said in a statement from BIHAMK.

(FENA) S. R.

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