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Number of traffic fatalities in Belgium dropped spectacularly lastyear
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redac...affic%2Bdeaths
Thu 29/01/09 17:20 (UPDATE video) - The number of traffic fatalities in Belgium dropped spectacularly last year, according to preliminary statistics for 2008. The data is based on figures from December 2007 to November 2008 and compared with the same period of the year prior. The number of people who died in traffic accidents in 2008 was dramatically lower compared to the year before, and that year there was already a stagnation with 1,067 deaths. (Belga) From 1 December 2007 to 30 November 2008, 857 people died in the traffic. This is 120 fewer than in the same period the year before. "We notice a significant decrease - about 12 percent," says Werner De Dobbeleer of the Belgian Institute for Traffic Safety. The positive figures were already seen in March and April and trend continued through the year. Werner De Dobbeleer is pleased with the trend and remarks, "You have to go way back in the years to find such a dramatic decrease." There is not immediately an explanation for the decrease in traffic deaths. "Many factors are at play here. We notice that the Belgians are slowly but surely changing their driving behaviour. They are starting to drive slower because of the presence of more unmanned cameras and more people are wearing seatbelts." The authorities are very pleased with the trend. In 2001 more than 1400 people died in traffic accidents in Belgium. The aim is to scale traffic fatalities back to less than 500 by the year 2015. |
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