1000’s of individuals hit the street over the weekend throughout Türkiye
because the nine-day Qurban Bayram, often known as Eid al-Adha, got here to
an finish. The Inside Ministry stated that regardless of the busy site visitors,
the variety of accidents, a staple of the graduation and finish of
the vacation, decreased, Pattern experiences citing Day by day Sabah.
Minister Suleyman Soylu introduced on his social media account on
Sunday that the speed of site visitors accidents decreased 29%, in contrast
to different prolonged holidays previously decade, whereas the deadly
accidents’ price decreased by 55%.
The minister famous that some 801,000 automobiles crossed the Bolu
mountain passage, the busiest route on holidays connecting the large
cities within the west to the Anatolian heartland, whereas some 760,000
automobiles used the identical route for the return house to western cities
previously days. He urged drivers to adjust to site visitors security
guidelines.
On Sunday, 30 individuals had been injured when a bus toppled over the
roadside within the central province of Kayseri. The bus was carrying
holidaymakers from the southern metropolis of Mersin, who spent the
vacation on a tour of the Black Sea area within the north. The injured
are being handled at hospitals in Kayseri.
For the reason that begin of the vacation final week, 31 individuals have been
killed and plenty of others injured in accidents throughout the nation in
the primary 5 days of the vacation.
1000’s of persons are both visiting their family members or
going to trip spots throughout this 12 months’s nine-day bayram vacation.
Regardless of the measures, many site visitors accidents happen on account of
overspeeding, reckless driving and congestion on the roads. To
dissuade drivers from breaking street security legal guidelines, the Inside
Ministry issued directives to the governorates of 81 provinces,
primarily to extend the presence of site visitors police models
all through the nation.
At some point of the vacation, greater than 210,000 members of
the safety forces had been on responsibility to observe adherence to
laws, together with the usage of seat belts.
Based on official figures, greater than 1.1 million accidents
occurred throughout Turkey in 2021, which is larger than the 2019 and
2020 figures however decrease than 2018. However, solely 187,963
accidents resulted in deaths or accidents. Greater than 3,500 individuals
die every single day on the roads, based on the World Well being
Group (WHO), which declared 2021-2030 because the Decade of
Motion for Highway Security, with the goal of stopping a minimum of 50%
of street site visitors deaths and accidents by 2030. WHO has stated almost
1.3 million deaths are preventable in site visitors accidents yearly,
describing accidents as a serious reason for dying globally.
