QUERÉTARO, QRO.- This Monday the activities of the eighth National Congress on Road Safety organized by the National Association of Private Transportation (ANTP) began. Alex Theissen Long, president of the association’s board of directors, highlighted that since the birth of the ANTP, road safety has been a guiding axis.

He highlighted that although Mexico is far from meeting the goals of reducing road accidents and reducing fatalities resulting from them, there are exercises such as the congress that contribute to solving the problem.

He assured that, although road accidents are an intrinsic issue in the mobility of people, goods and merchandise, it is urgent to meet the goals of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 .

“Safety is the responsibility of everyone, of companies, authorities, pedestrians, motorcyclists and motorists,” he stated.

Theissen Long added that the congress and the lessons learned from it will help prevent accidents and save lives.

Alberto Mendoza, representative of the Mexican Institute of Transportation (IMT) , stressed that among the goals of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 is the standardization of standards, laws and programs, with subsequent monitoring of progress.

Another important goal is to improve communication routes and ensure that vehicles comply with the relevant safety certifications. As well as stimulating safe driving skills, avoiding the use of narcotics and alcohol consumption.

“Another essential point is the reduction of the time interval between a traffic accident and the provision of emergency services. The first hour after the accident is crucial because lives can be saved. It should be noted that the figures reveal that in Mexico between 15 and 16 thousand people lose their lives due to road accidents,” Mendoza said.

In this sense, he recalled the publication of the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety (LGMSV) and the importance of its harmonization throughout the country, “because this lays the foundations to solve the problem.”

For his part, Álvaro Flores, general director of Highway Safety and Facilities of the National Guard , explained that motor transportation is closely linked to road safety .

He also recognized the actions on the matter that associations, chambers and companies linked to motor transportation have implemented.

At the same time, he highlighted the commitment of motor transport companies to safety, leveraged with a good selection of personnel, as well as training programs for operators and the incorporation of new technologies in vehicles. All with the objective of “reducing incidents and guaranteeing road safety ,” Flores commented.

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At the end of last year the number of people killed due to road accidents amounted to 16,853 , according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) , which averages out to 13.1 deaths per one hundred thousand inhabitants.

These figures place Mexico in a complex situation, since the data from a previous year averaged 12.8 deaths, if it is taken into account that the average of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was 5.3. for every 100 thousand inhabitants and the leading countries in road safety had an average of two deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants, in Mexico 6 times more people die from this cause than in the most advanced countries .

It should be noted that of the total deaths, it is estimated that a total of 338 were in a heavy vehicle, which means that 2.0% of the deaths were in this configuration of units.

Based on these data, Salvador Saavedra, president of the Automotive Industry Sector of the National Chamber of the Processing Industry (Canacintra) and founding partner of Entorno Industrial, explained that “there is a lot to do in this area . ”

Based on a statistic carried out by Entorno Industrial made with data from the Mexican Transport Institute (IMT) and Inegi, Saavedra detailed that from 2021 to 2023, 5,189 people have died above the target trend of reducing deaths due to road accidents. raised in the Decade for Road Safety 2021-2030 .

“With a cost for the country of four thousand 220 million dollars, this figure is notable because the General Law of Mobility and Road Safety (LGMSV) details that no money is allocated in the budget for issues of this Law, from my point of view. “From this point of view, resources should be allocated in such a way that we do not have these increasing numbers.”

The figures highlight the importance of taking fundamental actions, implementing what is established in the National Strategy for Mobility and Road Safety (Enamov) to achieve the goal of the Decade of Road Safety 2021-2023.

According to joint data from Inegi and the IMT, by 2023 there will be 400 thousand road accidents per year, on the other hand, just over 700 thousand vehicles were involved, of which just under five thousand were cargo vehicles (single trucks, articulated and double articulated) both on roads and in the city. It is important to note that the statistics that were published in the IMT Statistical Yearbook stopped reporting what was happening with the full configuration .

“In 2021 was the last time this data was reported, starting in 2022, unitary, articulated and double articulated trucks were unified in the cargo category,” Saavedra explained, while noting that it is important to recover the figures by type. of configuration, which will help to observe the areas of opportunity and the actions that are taken to have more security in each of the different configurations.

Given this reality, Saavedra explained that it is necessary to have a safe transit system, which addresses the incorporation of multimodal transportation and better use of land, as well as safer transit and mobility routes, coupled with safer vehicles with users are increasingly aware of safety, and in the event that these four factors fail, it is important to have an effective response to accidents.

On the other hand, the president of the Automotive Industry Sector of Canacintra, proposed that to contribute to reducing the risk of collisions on roads it is necessary to make the country’s road infrastructure more efficient and take examples from more advanced countries , so that they are transferred practical solutions to the country.

For example, 2+1 roads that have three lanes, one for each direction of traffic, and another central one, intended for overtaking, which alternates between one direction of traffic and the other and both directions are separated by a physical barrier. . Or highways could also be equipped with a “virtual” third lane for passing, even in a non-permitted area.

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