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| http://roadskillmap.com/#30.90222470517144,-135.35156249999997,2 |
República Dominicana
La República Dominicana es el lugar más peligroso para conducir en las Américas, con casi 42 muertes por cada 100,000 habitantes. El cincuenta y ocho por ciento de las muertes son pasajeros en vehículos de 2 y 3 ruedas. (No hay cifras de víctimas mortales en elas vias para el vecino Haití).
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is the most dangerous place to drive in the Americas, with nearly 42 fatalities per 100,000 in population. Fifty-eight percent of the deaths are riders on 2- and 3-wheeled vehicles. (There are no road fatality figures for neighboring Haiti.)
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| República Dominicana líder mundial en muerte por accidentes de trafico |
Todos tenemos que hacer algo para detener esta carnicería humana en las carreteras dominicanas. Estamos muriendo en las carreteras por cada 100,000 habitantes 40 mueren cada año en las carreteras como consecuencia de accidentes de trafico.
Hospital Traumatológico Dr NEY Arias Lora en proceso de convertirse en el primer Hospital HEMO-Cardioprotegido de República Dominicana y uno de los pocos en el mundo.
Estadisticas de Trauma por Accidententes de Trafico en Republica Dominicana
Más de 14800 pacientes de #Trauma desde enero a noviembre de este año 2019, atendidos en el Hospital Traumatologico Dr NEY Arias Lora, de estos más de 7100 por accidentes de vehículos de motor, la mitad de estos por motocicletas, 140 fallecieron y de estos 108 en grupos de edades entre 15 y 45 años
by Dr. ALEJANDRO Soto, MD
Director Médico de Hospital NEY Arias
Coordinador Comité de Trauma COLEGIO DOMINICANO DE CIRUJANOS
Director ATLS Rep Dominicana
Programa Nacional de Muertes por Accidente de Tránsitos (PREMAT)?
"In the Dominican Republic are dying 40 per each 100,000 people on the road, is the world´s deadliest country"
Programa Nacional de Muertes por Accidente de Tránsitos (PREMAT)
Misión
Prevenir y reducir las muertes por accidentes de tránsito, mediante la educación y promoción para reducir los índices de morbi–mortalidad, discapacidad y trastornos psicosociales en la población dominicana.
Visión
Ser un Programa modelo de coordinación nacional de prevención y reducción de muertes por accidentes de tránsito, fundamentado en la solidaridad humana y el esfuerzo colectivo que garanticen una mejor calidad de vida al pueblo dominicano.
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Coordinación
Calidad
Solidaridad
Objetivos Estratégicos
1. Educar a la población dominicana en la prevención de accidentes de tránsito.
2. Prestar atención médica y psicológica de calidad a los traumatizados en accidentes de transito.
3. Establecer mecanismo de coordinación interinstitucional entre organismo tanto público como privados que guarden relación directa con la problemática de accidentes transito.
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| GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON ROD SAFETY 2013 by World Health Organization WHO |
Mapped: Killer Roads
By Joshua Keating
SEPT. 19 2013
The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting created the distressing map above, which illustrates a too-often ignored global health crisis: the yearly toll of traffic fatalities. The map is part of “Roads Kill,” a series of reported pieces on global traffic safety. Editor Tom Hundley notes that traffic fatalities around the world have reached 1.24 million per year and could triple by 2030. In the developing world, road accidents will soon overtake HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis to become the fifth leading cause of death. A number of countries are profiled individually as part of the project, including Egypt, where journalist Lauren Bohn writes that yearly traffic fatalities are roughly equal to the number who died in 2011 uprising and cost the country more than $1 billion per year.
The data for the map comes from the World Health Organization’s 2013 Global status report on road safety. Africa is the world’s most dangerous region for traffic fatalities with 24.1 deaths per 100,000 population in 2010. The Dominican Republic was the most dangerous country with 41.7 per 100,000. (Not counting the tiny Pacific island of Niue, which technically had the highest rate even with only one fatality.
The AP reported on the Dominican traffic epidemic earlier this summer:
It's not unusual in the Dominican Republic to see up to five people, including babies, scrunched atop a motorcycle, or for drivers to carry all types of cargo, including heavy gasoline tanks, atop their bikes. Motorists also dodge hundreds of dilapidated cars and trucks as they zoom across lanes without warning, fail to stop at red lights and go against traffic, often at high speed and sometimes even taking over sidewalks.[…]
Dominican officials believe a lethal mix of alcohol, speed and blatant disregard for traffic laws is to blame. On a recent weekend, police stopped more than 460 motorcycles and 170 cars in the capital of Santo Domingo, issuing tickets mostly for driving the wrong way or running red lights.
Many also focus on the growing prevalence of cheap, dangerous motorcycles here. An estimated 1.5 million of them race across the country, representing more than half of all vehicles on the road. The use of motorcycles has grown by an average of 12 percent each year, without taking into account those that aren't registered, according to government statistics.
To be fair, other countries may actually have higher rates than the DR: government underreporting of traffic fatalities is a serious problem according to the WHO.
The good news is that the numbers of deaths seem to have plateaued in the last four years measured, despite a large increase in the number of vehicles on the road, and decreased in 88 countries.
Only 7 percent of the world’s population is covered by what the WHO considers to be comprehensive legislation for the five risk factors for traffic fatalities: speed, drunk driving, motorcycle helmets, seat-belts, and child seats. Traffic laws, road signs, and speed bumps don’t often get mentioned as a potential way to save thousands of lives, but compared to some other persistent global problems this seems like fairly low-hanging fruit.
(Via Mark Glaser and Andy Revkin)
