TIRANA, October 21/ATA/ Minister of Interior Sander Lleshaj held today a meeting with heads of Road Police sector in Albania in the framework of implementation of measures to increase road safety.
Within a few weeks, the relevant package is expected to be forwarded to the Assembly with amendments to the Road Code, which provides for tougher measures for a series of violations.
Minister Lleshaj asked the central and local heads of the Road Police to focus their work in several important directions, under the motto “Vision Zero”, which aims at zero casualties by 2050.
“At the beginning of this year we declared that 2020 is an important year, which is also called the Year of Road Safety, with the objective of intensifying the effort to significantly reduce the number of accidents and their consequences. Fortunately, it must be said that the indicators for this year are positive for a number of reasons, where of course the good work of the Police is one of the reasons”, he said.
Lleshaj said that, “However, we still have a high rate of loss of human life compared to EU countries.”
While the General Director of the State Police Ardi Veliu said that, “If we refer to the comparative indicators for 2020 and the same period of 2019, we find that there have been 985 road accidents, with 141 killed, 143 seriously injured and 988 lightly injured.
“Compared to the same period of 2019 we have, more specifically 233 road accidents less, or -18% less than the same period last year; 19 people less killed or -12% compared to the same period last year; 64 less seriously injured, or -33%, and 324 slightly injured, less, or -26%”, he said./m.m/j.p/p.s./
