{"id":182391,"date":"2022-07-18T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=182391"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:28:11","slug":"a-world-leadership-nobody-wants-traffic-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/18\/a-world-leadership-nobody-wants-traffic-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"A world leadership nobody wants: traffic fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Accidentes-transito-Listin-Diario-1024x586.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182407\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Accidentes-transito-Listin-Diario-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Accidentes-transito-Listin-Diario-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Accidentes-transito-Listin-Diario-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Accidentes-transito-Listin-Diario.png 1324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported the Dominican Republic is the world leader in traffic fatalities. 64.6 traffic fatalities per 100,000 population, the Dominican Republic passed runner-ups, Zimbabwe (41\/100,000), Venezuela (39\/100,000), Liberia (38.9), and Eritrea (37.9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ranking is attributed to a combination of lack of driver education and laissez-faire of authorities in allowing millions of uneducated motorcyclists to circulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic accidents are the greatest killer of men in the Dominican Republic between the ages of 14 and 34, as 87% of all traffic deaths are men. It is also the main cause of maimed people in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Dominican Republic, most of these traffic fatalities are motorcycle riders or drivers, and the country&#8217;s absolute number for any given year is around 3,000 deaths per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This might help explain the government\u2019s firm intent to assure the public that all motorcycle drivers are equipped with helmets and licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2022\/07\/14\/alerta-alta-cifra-de-muertes-por-accidentes-de-transito\/1946577\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/economia\/2022\/07\/14\/730070\/republica-dominicana-es-el-pais-con-mas-muertes-por-accidentes-de-transito-en-el-mundo\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/18\/times-up-for-unregistered-motorcycles\/\">DR1 News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 July 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported the Dominican Republic is the world leader in traffic fatalities. 64.6 traffic fatalities per 100,000 population, the Dominican Republic passed runner-ups, Zimbabwe (41\/100,000), Venezuela (39\/100,000), Liberia (38.9), and Eritrea (37.9). The ranking is attributed to a combination of lack of driver education and laissez-faire of authorities in allowing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/07\/18\/a-world-leadership-nobody-wants-traffic-fatalities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182436,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182391\/revisions\/182436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}