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On Thursday, January 30, Mayor of Alhama de Murcia was convened by the Government Delegation to the First Provincial Traffic Commission between municipalities of the Region of Murcia, which from the Provincial Traffic Murcia subjects were treated as important as:
The accident rate in urban and interurban roads, and its objectives and strategies.
Coordination in monitoring and control actions
The surveillance and control campaigns
This was confirmed this morning the Councillor of Police and Public Safety, Sanchez Angela Eagle, who also reported some of the data given in this commission.
The mayor pointed out that the accident rate in traffic accidents has been declining in recent years in the region, from a figure of 121 deaths in 2006 to 48 this past year 2013.
Used by municipalities, the total deaths in urban roads was 14 without in Alhama de Murcia has registered no.
These results fatalities have occurred in neighboring municipalities and Sewer (1) Cartagena (2) Lorca (1), Molina de Segura (1) Murcia City (9).
The councilor pointed out that the most vulnerable are:
Pedestrians killed in accident accounted for 28.5% of all fatalities.
Bicyclists represent 7.1%
The deceased motorists are 21.5%
And the moped riders represent another 7.1%
Angela Sanchez also emphasized that accidents in which cyclists are involved, the number is much higher in urban roads, 3726, in the trunk, 1424.
Although, he asserted, "both figures are alarming."
Thrown all data, the mayor explained that they have made a series of priority objectives and to continue to reduce these figures as encouraging a good information system for the development of adequate transportation policy strategies; carry out police checks on alcohol, drugs and medicines and is an important risk factor in roads but also on urban roads or reducing speed in urban environments.
The head of Public Safety has said this morning that "the main objective is to reduce the death rate, the number of serious injuries, no children died child restraint system, reduce hit and killed by cyclists and the number of fatalities on urban roads is zero. "
Indeed, looking for it, there have been several performances of coordination, monitoring and control, as "made in the town for months by both the Civil Guard as our local police officers. Such joint inspections are being carried out in all duty shifts (morning, afternoon and night) and every day of the year. "
In this sense, the mayor referred to the coordination and direct support to the city of Alhama receives from the Government Office did, for example, that for about 10 days of January have agents of the Guardia Civil GRS ( Reserve and Security Group), intensified checks and surveillance Alhama and their fields and villages.
As a result, numerous interventions and arrests were made.
Moreover, and in line with what I explained, the mayor referred to the campaigns carried out surveillance and control, organized by the General Directorate of Traffic and which is attached the town of Alhama.
The City Council of Alhama through your local police was acceded to most of the campaigns conducted by the Directorate General of Traffic.
The last campaign was held in the month of December, in the days before Christmas.
The campaign was about alcohol and drugs.
As a result, the local police conducted a total of 180 checks for 7 days (from 9 to 15 December) and were reported in March, resulting in a percentage of 1.67%.
The head of local police has said that for this year 2014 are planned the following campaigns:
Trucks and vans (is being developed in these days and are attached to it)
Belt and Child Restraint Systems
Speed
Motorcycle Control
Alcohol and Drugs
School Transport
Finally, Angela Sanchez wanted to show that "all these efforts and actions that can be initiated from the institutions to inform, educate and remind citizens of the need to respect the traffic regulations on public roads, not serve anything when we ourselves build awareness that our own life is at stake, that we alone are responsible for it and we can all be victims. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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