Polish Car Fatality
Polish Shock - Poland's Roads Are Safer
Warsaw, Poland 9 January 2010 - Polish authorities released some surprising information. Poland's roads are safer. Only 94 people died on Warsaw roads last year, the first time the death toll has been in double digits in nearly two decades.
This is a 25 per cent decrease from 125 fatalities recorded in 2008, and is a trend set to continue, with Sunday January 3 the first day in memory with no lethal car accidents in the country.
“I can’t remember a year in which we had less than 100 dead,” said junior police inspector Wojciech Pasieczny.
Accidents and injuries in the capital have also decreased, by 33 and 34 per cent respectively, as well as the national road death toll which fell by 900 in 2008 to less than 4,500 in 2009.
Prior to last year, accidents were decreasing but deaths on roads increasing.
Last year’s good result came not after a reduction of all city street speed limits to 50km/h, but only after the limit was restored to 80km/h on arterial roads Trasa Łazienkowska and Wisłostrada.
Police say the change comes from increased police presence, speed cameras and mobile units with recording capabilities, increased road works which inevitably forced drivers to slow down, and social campaigns against irresponsible and drunk driving.
The main victims remain pedestrians, who in two-thirds of cases were at fault.
The worst intersections remain Marszałkowka and Swiętokrzyska streets and Aleje Jana Pawła II at Stawki, and the worst roads are Puławska and Grochowska streets.
By Victoria Ziarkowski
Freelance Writer
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