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Number of traffic accidents and drunk drivers decreased in Estonia in June

BC, Tallinn, 02.07.2015.Print version
The traffic situation in Estonia improved in June 2015 as compared to the same time last year regarding people involved in traffic accidents and the number of drunk drivers, and also fewer traffic accidents occurred in the first half of 2015 than at the same time last year, LETA/Postimees Online reports.

According to the police's initial statistics, 97 traffic accidents with casualties occurred in June and two people were killed in them. 9 accidents, in which a total of 10 people were injured, were caused by drunk drivers. In June last year, there were 145 traffic accidents with human casualties and in these accidents 1 person was killed.

 

Drunk drivers caused at the same time last year 9 accidents, in which 32 people were injured.

 

In the first six months of this year, 580 traffic accidents occurred in Estonia and similar to the previous year, 33 people were killed in them. In the first half of the year, 58 accidents were caused by drunk drivers, in which 78 people were injured, and 4 people died. At the same time last year, drunk drivers caused 76 accidents, causing seven deaths and injuries to 108 people.






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