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2,618 deaths and 25,399 injuries in eight months!
Road accidents:
According to Mr. Lahcen Boubka, director of studies at the National Delegation for Road Safety, during only the first eight months of the current year, the number of people who died was 2,618, an increase of 0.5% compared to the same period of last year. This while the number of bodily accidents was 18,395, an increase of 0.89%.
The number of injured, for its part, was no less than 25,399, still increasing, this time, by 2%.
Mr. Boubka, who spoke Monday on the program ”L’hôte du jour” on Channel III of Algerian Radio, rightly underlines that “there are so many bereaved families, disabled people, some for life, and material and financial losses, particularly for the insurance sector.”
Behind the constant increase in these macabre tolls, it is the human factor which remains incriminated and is placed, according to the Radio guest, “on the front line with a rate of 95% due to speeding, the effects of psychotropic drugs and non-compliance with the Highway Code”. As for the profile of drivers, Mr. Boubka affirms that the majority “are among young people, and holders of driving licenses under five years old”.