• Fewer casualties in road accidents, but more deaths among young people
  • False traffic accidents, ordinances for 20 people in Rome

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30 December 2019Less 1.3% of road accidents. The budget on our roads in 2019 starts from this. Budget made by the Traffic Police and Carabinieri. The reduction (2.9%) in the number of victims (1,566, minus 46) is more sensitive, also because the 2018 figure includes the 43 victims of the collapse of the Morandi bridge.

Roads and highways
15 fatal accidents on ordinary roads and 15 fewer victims than in 2018 (-1%), on the highway there were 7 more fatal accidents (+ 3.1%) ". For the victims - 31 fewer - it is worth what already mentioned in relation to the Genoa event.

The comparison with Istat data
And there is a difference between the data comparison of the Traffic Police and the Carabinieri and the preliminary Istat estimate of the first half of 2019.
In fact, a decrease - detected by Istat - of road accidents with personal injury and injuries, by 1.3% and 2.9% respectively, corresponds to a reduction, referred to the first half of the year, detected by traffic police and Carabinieri weapon of 1.8% and 3.6%.
For the victims, however, Istat estimates an increase of 1.3% or 20 more deaths. 6.7% more for the Traffic Police and the Carabinieri

Fines, alcohol and drugs
From 1 January to 15 December 2019, the Traffic Police and Carabinieri contested 2,376,484 violations of the Highway Code, 28.8% of which due to speeding, 35.7% more than last year. 61 thousand driving licenses were withdrawn, 74 thousand registration certificates withdrawn. Reduced 3 and a half million driving license points reduced.
There were 1,264,314 drivers checked with breathalyzers and precursors, of which 23,800 were penalized for driving in a state of alcoholic intoxication (+ 2,2% compared to 2018), while those reported for driving under the influence of drugs were 2,156 (-6.7%).

This year, underlines Polstrada, "the extraordinary campaign of checks on the psychophysical conditions of drivers of vehicles in a state of alteration following the intake of narcotic or psychotropic substances" continued. Overall, the data is up to 8 December 630 control posts have been activated, with the use of 3,122 operators of the traffic police and 883 between doctors and health personnel of the state police. There were 22,199 drivers checked, 7% of whom tested positive for alcohol with a rate greater than 0.5 g / l, while 377 drivers tested positive for one or more drugs during road tests

The controls
In the first eleven months of the year, the so-called "Tutor" made it possible to ascertain 306,971 violations of the speed limits. In the professional transport sector, 2,791 services were carried out between January and November, with the use of 13,874 operators and 4,018 Mit operators; 31,873 heavy vehicles checked, of which 14.3% were foreigners. Just over 24 thousand infringements were found. 290 licenses withdrawn.

Other crimes: from scams to robberies
As part of the activity to combat the illicit traffic of vehicles, the Traffic Police arrested 108 people and reported 619 others. The vehicles seized were 308. Investigations for various scams made it possible to report in a state of freedom further 883 people. On the motorway network, the intensification of services to combat robberies against motorists, shops and users in transit made it possible to arrest 102 people and report 203 others. 4,430 inspections were carried out between body shops, garages, driving schools, car dealers, verified car showrooms : 2,808 confirmed violations, 150 administrative seizures and 131 criminal seizures completed.

The "Saturday night massacres" are falling
The victims of the so-called "Saturday night massacres" decrease on our roads. From the beginning of the year to 8 December, on the weekend nights, the Traffic Police and the Carabinieri Police deployed 153,974 patrols in the checkpoints, detecting 148 fatal accidents that resulted in 178 deaths: eleven fewer than last year. The drivers checked with breathalyzers and precursors were 195,533, 5.7% of which tested positive for the blood alcohol level test: in 2018 the percentage was 5.2%.
The number of people reported for driving under the influence of drugs was 408. The vehicles confiscated for confiscation 61