“We can’t pretend nothing happened. We cannot stay silent.” The lament is that of Giordano Bisernipresident of Asaps, who comments with a mixture of anger and bitterness on the data relating to road victims in Italy over the last weekend. 44: this is the number of deaths on Italian roads from 7 June to 9 June, a real massacre that Biserni himself defined as “a very sad record“ in the current year.
44 victims over the last weekend
“We can no longer continue this count. Someone must explain what our country lacks to be an authoritative member in the European Union, since we are sending 76 parliamentarians to the European Parliament – the comment of Asaps number one – We can’t think that the battle against speed cameras, the closure of the Traffic Police detachments, the depleted staff of the Local Police, a fragmented way of solving problems without knowing the true numbers of the road disaster, are not the indirect causes of this result”.
The numbers of the massacre
During the weekend placed under observation by Asaps, it was mostly those who lost their lives motorcyclists and motorists, 19 first ones, 20 second ones, in addition to them there are also 3 cyclists, a pedestrian and a victim in a van. Regardless of the type of road user, we are faced with an overall number still further increasing compared to the previous weekend when there were 36 deaths. Furthermore, a massacre that it spares no age group: the youngest victim was an 18 year old boy, the oldest was an 88 year old man.
Asaps raises its voice
“Certainly speed, distraction from mobile phones, failure to give priority, unmaintained vehicles, lack of respect for vulnerable users, they are all direct causes of the 44 deaths – concluded Biserni – But someone in the Palace takes cognizance of it while in the Senate it goes very slowly the work of approving the road safety bill?”.
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