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Road accidents on the rise: 54 cyclists among the victims in the summer months

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ROME – As before and perhaps even worse. After the pandemic effect, which saw the drastic reduction of mobility on the national road network, the accident curve, with the relative number of victims, started to rise again in a worrying way. The alarm was raised by the conference promoted by the Association of supporters and friends of the traffic police called “Road safety in the area, good to protect or not?”. “In the post-pandemic there was a very serious accident, especially on state and provincial roads – underlined Giordano Biserni, president of Asaps – In the summer alone, the Asaps Observatory recorded the immediate death of 59 cyclists and 64 pedestrians. Then we add the ten deaths from the beginning of the year due to accidents on scooters ”.

The fear of being infected by the virus on unavoidably crowded public transport with the gradual return to normality, then pushed the use of private vehicles for all trips and if on the one hand there was the positive increase in cycling mobility from other there was the increase in the use of the car with its consequences.

“There are 196 motorcyclists who died on weekends alone from June to September – added Biserni – And then the 16 children who died on the roads in the past summer, 25 since the beginning of the year. In terms of road safety, as has been the case for thirty years now, our commitment will never fail ”. The concern of the association, which inspired the name of the conference, then comes from the dismissal of detachments and departments that make the already precarious presence of the police on the secondary road network disappear.

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“We chose a rhetorical and somewhat provocative question – explained President Asaps – to reiterate that it is certainly an asset for us to protect, avoiding harmful decisions such as the recent closure of the Rocca detachment of the Traffic Police, after 62 years of honor and appreciated service, and over a dozen other departments. There was nothing to be done, Bureaucracy beats Politics 3 to zero. For savings? What savings, if the state did not even pay the rent in Rocca? But do we realize that for every life saved on the roads, the Health and the State would save an average of one million and 503.990 euros? “. (maurilio rigo)

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