How much traffic risk do patent drivers pose?

Under suspicions of irregularities and <x0 patented drivers”, Kosovo Police have arrested 23 people last weekend, most of them infrastructure ministry officials and other persons suspected of involvement in the case.

According to police, arrest “allegedly enabled interested persons to be equipped with a driver license of different categories without passing through the necessary tests, depending on the driver's license category of 400 to 1000 euros”.

While the investigations are under way, the number of people who have “purchased <x1 driver's license has not been disclosed. The case is under investigation, while suspects have been assigned detention measures.

Road communications security experts estimate that driving with a driver's license without going through educational and testing phase increases risk in traffic.

Visar Bajzak, told Free Europe Radio, that such “persons (with a driver's license) pose a high risk to themselves and other participants in traffic”.

“If the driver's license device does not pass all the initial phases with the driver's license and administrative directives, then it is estimated that those who enter into circulation as users, different categories, are not prepared enough for circulation and are at the same time dangerous for themselves, but for other participants (in communications). Finally, in all road safety research, the education of new leaders is very important in road safety”, the expert Bajaku noted.

Meanwhile, even according to the other road - communications security expert Nol Deday, one of the elements affecting increased risklessness in traffic, because of the human factor, is the education of management.

“Of course, testing candidates from the theoretical and practical part is one of the key elements of road safety, and if such phenomena (the driver's license) are then certainly proven that communication safety is fragile as regards these drivers. One of the elements in the human factor can be education, while there are other elements that directly affect road safety”, he noted.

Deday, however, warns that the human factor is only one of the elements that contribute to accidents, along with road and vehicle factors.

And Bayzak estimates that the sale of patent drivers “is a problematic phenomenon in other countries in transition”.

He says young drivers “are regarded with higher potential due to the cause of” accidents. According to him, that's why the new “associates, according to the Law (for driver's license), should be driving until two years after the license device is driven under surveillance”.

The total number of persons equipped with a driver's license in Kosovo, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MPB), is 692 thousand. Of them, 506 thousand are men, and 186 thousand are women. Meanwhile, the number of mobile drivers, according to the ministry, is 668 thousand.

In recent years, the number of accidents on the streets of Kosovo has increased. Among the major causers of accidents, road communication experts say: human factor, vehicle factor, and road. In addition to punishment, the institutions should also use preventive and educational measures.

With the goal of boosting security in road communications, from January 1st last year (2018), through the new law, fines for criminals have been hardened.

Despite stiffening punitive measures for lawbreakers and traffic law, the number of victims and accidents remains constant concern.

More than 300 people have died in road traffic accidents in Kosovo since January 1st 2017, according to official Kosovo Police data. During this period two and a half years, the total number of accidents totals about 39 thousand, while the number of injured exceeds 28 thousand and 500.

This year, the number of people who lost their lives in road communications, according to police data by the end of May, is 35. Last year, the death toll in road accidents has been 128, while in 2017 on the streets of Kosovo 137 people have lost their lives.

Since the introduction of new penalty measures, the number of fines pronounced amounts to more than 570 thousand, of which 400,000 were pronounced during 2018 alone. In the first five months of this year, however, for countering traffic, more than 170 thousand fines have been imposed.

We remember that last Friday, Kosovo police had held arrests of officials who had made cell phones with a driver's license. 

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