TIRANA, October 21/ATA/- In January-September this year, Albania recorded a total of 1136 road accidents down from 1 303 accidents that occurred during the same period of the previous year, registering a decline by 12.8 percent.
According to the Albanian Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), in the first 9-month period this year, pedestrian behaviour caused 14.2% of the road accidents, showing a 38.3% fall compared with the same period the previous year.
During the first 9 months period of 2019, a total of 1570 people were injured in road accidents, down from 1765 people in June 2018, or down by 11%.
In September 2019, Albania recorded a total of 122 road accidents, down from 156 accidents that occurred in the same month a year earlier, registering a decline by 21.8%.//a.i/
