NUMBER OF THOSE PERISHED AS RESULT OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS HAS INCREASED BY 44 IN SEVEN MONTHS OF THIS YEAR IN COMPARISON WITH SAME PERIOD OF PREVIOUS YEAR

Noyan Tapan
Aug 30 2007

YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, NOYAN TAPAN. 1118 traffic accidents were registered
in Armenia in January-July, 2007, as a result of which 215 people
died and 1712 received body injuries. This information was provided
by Colonel Hayk Sargsian, the Head of the Analytical Department of
the RA Traffic Police, during his meeting with journalists, which was
held on August 30. Hayk Sargsian also mentioned that the number of
car accidents has increased by 264, that of those perished by 44, and
the number of those, who received body injuries by 443 in comparison
with the same period of the previous year.

It was also mentioned that 33 traffic police collaborators have been
subjected to disciplinary punishments for neglecting in their duties
in the first seven months of this year. Nine out of these 33 police
collaborators have been dismissed from work. Hayk Sargsian stressed
that neither of these traffic police collaborators has to do with
corruption.

On the occasion of the new school year, a ten-day of safe traffic
will be held in all the school-adjacent areas of the republic between
September 1 to 10. According to Hayk Sargsian, the experience of
previous years speaks about the fact that this measure gives a positive
result: traffic accidents with the participation of school-children
are almost excluded. In particular, last year no such accident was
registered during the ten-day.

"We hope that we will preserve this index this year as well,"
H. Sargsian said.