We've had several threads about recent accidents on the north coast, but it's countrywide. According to this artile [google translate] there's an accident with a victim every hour and 22 minutes. Santo Domingo is the worst.
Be careful out there
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Dominican Republic records every hour and 22 minutes an accident with victims
71% of victims were generated in eight provinces
EVENTS | 31 JUL 2015, 12:00 AM |FEDERICO MENDEZ
SD. In 2014, every hour and 22 minutes in the Dominican Republic there was a traffic accident victims where 61% of the cases was involved a motorcycle.
Whereas in cases fatalities was participated by 64%.
The average monthly engines victims amounted to 607 this year, equivalent to an average of 100 motorcyclists killed per month, while injured reached 507.
The victims had recorded a balance of 7,278 in 5,583 casualties, although it experienced a decrease in the number of deaths of 0.3% over the previous year.
The information is contained in the new edition of "Indicators of Accidents Road in Dominican Republic", which is a research and analysis of road safety in the country, produced by Mario Holguin and Hugo Beras, during a ceremony headed by the Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito.
The indicator on the injured closed 2014 with a value of 128.37 injuries per 100,000, 50.97% higher than in 2013. It argues that the death rate from road accidents that year plunged 1.35 deaths per 100,000 over the previous year , when placed in 39.4 deaths per hundred inhabitants, without reaching the value of 2012. It states that the risk of a vehicle involved in an accident on the roads increased by 4% in 2014 compared to 2013, reaching the value of 300.03 per 100,000 vehicles.
Social motorization index in 2014 decreased by 4% over the previous year, so that today the figure is 2.91 people per vehicle against 3.03 in 2013.
As for all motorcycles (1,803,328 units), 56.5% are over 20 years of use, a relationship that could be greatly enhanced by the large number of illegal motorcycles transiting the country. With regard to the vehicle fleet of the country, the DGII closed 2014 with a record of 3,398,662 units, which is 53.1% of motorcycles.
Intercity expressways
Intercity expressways in the country 4,688 victims, as many were recorded in 2014 than in any other infrastructure. The report indicates that, even in residential parking incidents were reported. Of the 1855 deaths across the country, according to the underreporting of AMET, the hardest hit was the province of Santo Domingo with 242 fatalities. However, the National District accumulated the largest number of victims (dead + injured) for the same cause by reporting a total of 3,687 affected.
Be careful out there
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Dominican Republic records every hour and 22 minutes an accident with victims
71% of victims were generated in eight provinces
EVENTS | 31 JUL 2015, 12:00 AM |FEDERICO MENDEZ
SD. In 2014, every hour and 22 minutes in the Dominican Republic there was a traffic accident victims where 61% of the cases was involved a motorcycle.
Whereas in cases fatalities was participated by 64%.
The average monthly engines victims amounted to 607 this year, equivalent to an average of 100 motorcyclists killed per month, while injured reached 507.
The victims had recorded a balance of 7,278 in 5,583 casualties, although it experienced a decrease in the number of deaths of 0.3% over the previous year.
The information is contained in the new edition of "Indicators of Accidents Road in Dominican Republic", which is a research and analysis of road safety in the country, produced by Mario Holguin and Hugo Beras, during a ceremony headed by the Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito.
The indicator on the injured closed 2014 with a value of 128.37 injuries per 100,000, 50.97% higher than in 2013. It argues that the death rate from road accidents that year plunged 1.35 deaths per 100,000 over the previous year , when placed in 39.4 deaths per hundred inhabitants, without reaching the value of 2012. It states that the risk of a vehicle involved in an accident on the roads increased by 4% in 2014 compared to 2013, reaching the value of 300.03 per 100,000 vehicles.
Social motorization index in 2014 decreased by 4% over the previous year, so that today the figure is 2.91 people per vehicle against 3.03 in 2013.
As for all motorcycles (1,803,328 units), 56.5% are over 20 years of use, a relationship that could be greatly enhanced by the large number of illegal motorcycles transiting the country. With regard to the vehicle fleet of the country, the DGII closed 2014 with a record of 3,398,662 units, which is 53.1% of motorcycles.
Intercity expressways
Intercity expressways in the country 4,688 victims, as many were recorded in 2014 than in any other infrastructure. The report indicates that, even in residential parking incidents were reported. Of the 1855 deaths across the country, according to the underreporting of AMET, the hardest hit was the province of Santo Domingo with 242 fatalities. However, the National District accumulated the largest number of victims (dead + injured) for the same cause by reporting a total of 3,687 affected.
