Tegucigalpa.- About 983 people have died in traffic accidents in Honduras so far 2023, while the injured on the roads total 1,300informed this Tuesday the head of the National Directorate of Roads and Transportation (DNTV), Gustavo Pacheco.
The 983 dead and the wounded were registered in more than 4,000 traffic accidents reported in cities and the main highways of the country this year, indicated pacheco to journalists.
pacheco He gave an example of the death this Monday of a driver of a passenger bus in a traffic accident registered in the Suyapa boulevard, east of the Honduran capital, in which at least 8 people were injured, some seriously, apparently, due to speeding and alcohol intake.
He also highlighted that compared to 2022, so far in 2023 there has been a reduction in 152 deaths.
Although none of the main highways of Honduras It is high speed, there are many drivers of private vehicles or urban, interurban and cargo transport, as well as motorcyclists, who travel excessively.
The maximum speed allowed on the main highways of Honduras is 80 kilometers per hour, but in many traffic accidents drivers exceed 100, even 120 kilometers, according to records of the DNTV.
Excessive speed, pedestrian recklessness, distraction of drivers, failure to respect signs, mechanical failures and the intake of alcoholic beverages are the main causes of road accidents in Honduras, according DNTV authorities.
traffic accidents are the second cause of violent deaths in Honduras, surpassed only by murders and murders, which on average leave between ten and fifteen dead daily, according to official sources. EFE
