Ulaanbaatar
Number of traffic accidents lowered with Traffic Safety Law implementation
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A report on traffic accidents was presented by the Minister of Road and Transport D.Ganbat at the regular meeting of cabinet held on Wednesday. Each year on average, 32,100 cases of traffic accidents occur, injuring 1,289 people and taking 558 lives, causing damage in value of MNT 10 billion.
As for the last year, 73.5 percent of deaths in car crashes were recorded to have happened on countryside roads, 136 of whom were drivers and 149 passengers. In Ulaanbaatar, 84 out of 127 mortal victims in traffic accidents were pedestrians.
Minister D.Ganbat presented this report while discussing the implementation of the the National Strategy for Ensuring Traffic Safety in 2012-2020.
Associated officials and ministers were tasked to prepare proposals to the cabinet on renovating technological equipment in use by traffic police, making sure that police offices are able to monitor traffic outside the city, as well as on prohibiting imports of low quality vehicles and their spare parts.
Since the enforcement of law on Traffic Safety, 1,782 cases of violation of the traffic regulations were recorded in 2016, which represents decrease of 11.3 percnet in regulations’ violation, of 7 percent in death rate and 9.8 percent in injuries compared to the previous year’s.
