Melilla has fulfilled 80% of the actions of the Road Safety Plan for the year 2022, as explained by the Local Head of Traffic, José Carlos Romero.
The fulfillment of this Plan was one of the points addressed at the meeting of the Traffic and Road Traffic Safety Commission of Melilla that was hosted this morning by the Government Delegation.
The Plan included a hundred actions and actions of an educational, informative and informative nature, as well as campaigns to monitor and control the transit of vehicles and users of public roads.
Romero has highlighted the actions related to bringing road education to schools. “All the schools in Melilla have received road education sessions and a significant number of students from these schools have been able to participate,” he said.
The Local Traffic Chief has thanked all the entities and institutions of the different administrations for their collaboration, such as the Local Police, the Provincial Directorate of Education and Professional Training, the Ingesa, the Ministry of the Environment…
Today’s Commission has also dealt with the proposals to be included in the Road Safety Plan for this year 2023, which involve a hundred actions distributed in 5 major areas such as education, training, dissemination, surveillance and mobility actions.
Provisional accident data
Today’s meeting included among its items on the agenda the analysis of provisional data on road accident that took place in Melilla during the last year during the year 2022.
As Romero said, there have been a total of 297 traffic accidents with 383 victims. “When we talk about victims we are referring to minor, serious and deceased injuries and these 297 traffic accidents with victims, which took place in the year 2022, have involved a total of 364 minor victims, 17 serious injuries, and unfortunately two deaths,” he said.
With regard to the deceased, Romero has made it clear that they are those that are counted within 24 hours of the production of the accident, so “we will not know the definitive number of deaths in traffic accidents, since this concept refers to any person who dies within 30 days of the production of the accident, until the corresponding databases: the police, health, the national death registry… are not verified.”
With regard to 2019, the Local Head of Traffic has indicated that it represents a “relatively significant” reduction in the number of accidents and the number of injuries, while there has been practically an equal number of serious injuries and, unfortunately, 2 fatalities within 24 hours.
“It’s not a good thing, even if accidents and victims decrease, as long as there is an accident and there are victims, you can never talk about good data,” he said. In any case, he added, “if there is any improvement, we can talk about that there is hope that it can continue to decrease, but it will never produce satisfaction.”
Shared responsibility
José Carlos Romero added that, “much of the accident could be avoided if all users of public roads complied with traffic rules.”
He said that the human factor “is the one that has the greatest presence in the production of accidents, much greater than the vehicle factor and the road factor”.
“Road Safety is led by the General Directorate of Traffic and is led by the Administration but it is a shared responsibility, it is a responsibility that concerns us all,” he stressed.
In this line he pointed out that “we can all do something to ensure a lower level of accident and a better level of road safety”, given that “it is in the hands of each one of us that things can go better and we have to be aware that each one of us can contribute something so that these data are improving year after year”.
The Melilla Traffic and Road Traffic Safety Commission is chaired by the Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, and includes the Local Traffic Headquarters, the Territorial Directorate of the Ingesa, the Functional Health Area of the Delegation, the Civil Guard, the National Police, the Local Police, the Provincial Directorate of Education and Professional Training, the General Command of Melilla and the Ministry of the Environment.