Road security, hidden epidemic taking lives

The international traffic accident day has led college to meet all security acts in the country to discuss security, challenges and confrontations in road accidents in Kosovo.

College Director Muhamet Krasniqi said this talk about road accidents is very important, as road safety is a global challenge and a hidden epidemic taking lives every day.

Krasniqi: International traffic accident day marked on Sunday 3rd of every month

It's one day, third day of November. So it's a day that across the globe through various manifestations and activities is marked to commemorate the victims in road traffic, but simultaneously to commemorate the families of victims who lost their lives in road traffic”, he said.

Mehmeti added that under the awareness campaign they have prepared and a documentary film so that everyone is well informed of road safety.

Representatives of Kosovo Police, Samedin Mehmeti, have said that accidents are social disasters and that for every death in traffic, we are killing our consciences all. He stressed that although the fine has its effect, more needs to be done to this conscious campaign.

Mehmeti: Common Access Needed

From 2002 when the Kosovo Police, which owns statistics, have large numbers of traffic accidents. What's worse is that the consensus has either stayed the same or moved on. This does not tell of a social problem that relates only to a security situation, but it does tell of a problem that needs to be approached jointly. I think traffic is a multidisciplinary problem even as such can neither be managed nor improved unless we have common access, even the educational part of the engineering, but also the security part”, he said.

According to the police official from 2002 to 2017, there have been between 15,000 and 564 accidents, while the average death toll is 143 persons. While, during this year, during the January-November period, there have been 81 fatal accidents, resulting in about 103 deaths.

Isuf Bajrami from Pristina's Emergency Municipal Centre has indicated that in the first six months alone, they have had more accidents.

Bajrami: Half of those who die on the street are active participants in communications

The half of those who die on the street are active communications participants, bicycles, pedestrians. Unless precautions are taken, it is expected that by 2030, road traffic accidents will rank seventh in the rankings of major causes of death... During traffic accidents, the causes and economic consequences that are often being overlooked mean the costs are endorse”, he added.

For Emergency Clinic Director Basri Lenyan, this phenomenon is a disaster that is taking lives more and more every day. According to him, the main focus in addition to the urgent center and the maintenance of human health is to pay attention to rescuers, since they are the first persons to contact the injured.

Lenyan: The main purpose of emergency services is to maintain human health

Kosovo's “Police and Emergency Services are always hit, either in two aspects of position and negative... Emergency services are domestic services that provide care to the sick, injured, and poisoned. The main purpose of emergency services is to maintain health, address it at the scene, stabilize it, package it, and after medical care package transfer it to the nearest hospital”, Lenyan concluded.

Only during yesterday have four people lost their lives in the Gjilan-Pristina magistrates.