2023-05-11 19:09:57
The organization Central presented its most recent report “Not a road death”, which identifies the streets and highways where the most people have lost their lives in traffic accidents.
According to the report, Coahuila, Jalisco, Mexico City and the State of Mexico They are the entities with the most deaths from road accidents. The design of roads and highways that prioritizes speed is the main risk factor that promotes these collisions, according to information that reveals Millennium.
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The General Law of Mobility and Road Safety It already establishes the obligation to adapt the vocation, speed and design of roads under federal or state jurisdiction to consider the mobility and road safety of people.
However, the Secretariat of Communications and Transport Infrastructure (SICT) has not issued safe design criteria. Changing the design of these roads is mandatory and the levels of government have responsibilities to fulfill to make urban infrastructure safe for all users.
The report was based on data from journalistic notes, social networks and the collaboration of volunteers from Codeando México, and indicates that the Metropolitan Area of La Laguna It is one of the most dangerous, especially in the continuous section of the boulevard Mexican-Peripheral Army.
In the collected period of 2019-2022, 44 people dead, including 21 pedestrians, 4 motorcyclists and 19 cyclists.
Ruedas del Desierto, a collective member of the Safe Mobility Coalition, invites citizens, academia, businessmen and activists to join the activities for the Seventh United Nations Week for Road Safety.
The Safe Mobility Coalition calls on the corresponding authorities to prioritize actions that address the design and operation of these roads to save lives in a country where the vast majority of people walk and use public transportation.
The Seventh United Nations Road Safety Week It represents an opportunity to rethink mobility and it is essential to provide the conditions to guarantee the safety of those who use these modes of sustainable transport.
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