Even though Estonia has seen crazy developments in the implementation of road safety over the decades, the trend of the last five years is anything but happy: there are more accidents and the same number of injured people.
“People no longer remember the time from the early 1990s, when almost every day an Estonian person died in traffic,” explained Neeme Korv, head of the opinion editorial of Äripää and motorcycle enthusiast, in the program “Äripää opinion leader”. According to him, despite this perspective, the picture is worrying.
“If we come more narrowly to two-wheelers, the last few years have been a gloomy trend. Seven people have died and 88 have been injured this year, and last year there were also seven people who died riding motorcycles,” said Korv.
“If you look at the people who have died this year, there are people from every decade: aged 17 to 64.”
Why is all this happening? According to Korvi, the reason is mostly the same: the opinion that “it won’t happen to me” is rooted.
In the interview, Korv talks about what could be behind the bad traffic statistics in general, what role all kinds of two-wheelers play in this and in the traffic picture in general, and what both those who do traffic monitoring and the legislators could conclude from this.
Neeme Korv: one clear attitude sows death in traffic
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Source: www.aripaev.ee
