Nine traffic accidents It is the daily average registered during the first semester in Havana, with a balance of at least one death and four injuries each day, according to official data.
Ailed Borges Senrathe first analyst of the specialized traffic body of the Police General Directorate, told the Cuban News Agency (ACN) that the majority of the deaths -62- in accidents during those six months they were pedestrians or drivers of motorcycles or mopeds.
Taking the daily average as a reference, it can be calculated that in the Cuban capital at least 1,646 accidents occurred from January to Junealthough the total was not specified by the official agency.
According to Borges, they were involved in road accidents 3,025 vehiclesmainly cars, motorcycles and mopeds.
The Police officer revealed that during the semester, 2,531 vehicle drivers required a license, but 358 did not have one; Despite this, 202 were responsible for accidents and 111 drove under the influence of alcoholic beverages.
Borges also reported that the motorcycles and mopeds they took part in 609 road incidents, that is, in more than one in three. Unfortunately, these specific events recorded the highest number of victims: 38 deaths and 353 injuries.
Recklessness on the road and speeding are the leading cause of accidents in Havana during the first six months of the year, said the police analyst. Violations of this type caused injuries to 46 people, of whom 16 died; while due to pedestrian carelessness48 injured were registered, with the death of eight.
As in the rest of the country, in the capital it is alarming rise in traffic accidentsmany of them with fatal balance.
Last Friday, an old man who was sitting in the place where a van crashed died, on the Calzada de Diez de Octubre; Apparently, the driver was intoxicated. Saturday, Another person died when a garbage truck crashed into a pole and then into a tree in Lawton.
Two days ago, a truck and an almendrón collided in the central corner of 23 and 12 in El Vedado, and the day before, a Moskovitch crashed into the facade of a house in Marianao.
