• Balance: Accident deaths fall 6% in summer, trips do it 9.2%

  • DGT See how easy it is to have an accident

Much is being said about the

role of young people in the outbreaks of the coronavirus in Spain.

Big bottles, groups of dozens of kids who interact many of them without the mandatory mask ... And yet, being that a risky behavior, they forget that there are

others even more dangerous.

Like those related to traffic,

as the Fesvial foundation recalls.

And it is that last summer was, according to the DGT data, the one that has registered the least deaths since statistics exist, with 202 deaths, 6% less

But this decrease was due to the reduction in trips, which fell even more, by 9%.

And the great mole was the behavior of the group of users between 15 and 24 years old, which was the only one that increased their accident rate.

From 23 they went on to represent 38 victims, many more than those accounted for by Covid-19.

In addition, a good part of them are within the group of so-called

vulnerable users, a group made up of pedestrians, cyclists and users of motorcycles and mopeds.

In total, this group registered 84 fatalities this summer, 42% of the total.

Since 1960: 290,000 deaths in accidents

"These worrisome are the result of an atypical mobility due to the pandemic caused by Covid19, where

the movements of young people -different to those of previous

years-

in short journeys, by bicycle and motorcycle,

have been the summer trend as a road escape and expression of leisure "says Luis Montoro, professor of Road Safety.

Along these lines, it also recalls the ignorance of drivers about the causes that cause accidents: according to Fesvial, 50% of them put alcohol and drugs as the first causes.

On the other hand,

the definitive data of the DGT referring to 2019 indicate that distractions occupy the first place (28%), followed by alcohol consumption (24%) and speeding (23%).

Since Traffic started publishing traffic accident statistics in 1960, 290,000 people have died in traffic accidents in Spain, a figure that

Fesvial raises - by introducing correction factors - to 320,000.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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