Lekaj: In 8 months, the number of accidents decline by 13 percent

Thus has Minister Paul Lekaj announced on Friday at a table organised by college “The Temple”, held on European Day “Pa victims on the street”.

The news about traffic accidents worries us all. Since receiving the mandate as minister of Infrastructure, my priority has been to establish security in communications. This security is accomplished by building high - standard roads, but we will not be enough. I have also created the security task force in communications with ministry experts and the foreign experts in the respective fields”, Lekaj said.

According to him, where experts identify road axes where there are many accidents will be issued with recommendations to offer concrete solutions related to reducing the number of accidents on the road.

According to our ministry reports, I can say there are positive signs of a decline in accidents compared to last year. The number of accidents for the January-August period of this year has dropped by about 13 percent, compared to the same period last year, the percentage of fatal accidents has decreased by 17 percent“, Lekaj has announced.

In this context, he has invited for street care and protection from injuries.

The “means not to damage the road generation, not to be broken: signalling, lighting, flexible-protective attitudes, to conduct technical checks in order, and many other actions -- Kosovo Police are more educational than punishable. In this direction we have adopted some administrative guidelines, for the level of driving education, and also, recategorisation of roads, so that we can take a few more routes under the ministry's responsibility so that they can be signaled and rebuilt”, Lekaj said.