The project will last two years./ Photo: Wikipedia
The Diplomat. 01/02/16
The Directorate-General of Traffic (DGT) has been appointed to advise its opposite number in Algeria on road safety matters pertaining to the country, in a project that will be led by the Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP).
Spanish experts will be responsible for assisting their Algerian colleagues, for the next two years in “creating a database that provides reliable statistics on accidents”, according to a press release issued by the Foundation. In addition, they will be looking at increasing the defectiveness of highway controls and correcting “any deficiencies” in “accident-prone areas” on the roads”.
The authorities from both countries will spend five months working on the professionalism of road safety management, on improving everything relating to accident data, on the fostering changes in behaviour on the roads, on the improvement of roadway controls and on optimising assistance for victims of traffic accidents.
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“The project places Spain as a benchmark at an international level”, said DGT’s Director
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The Director of the DGT in Spain, María Seguí, said that winning this contract “places the DGT and Spain as benchmarks in safety matters at an international level”. Figures show that road deaths in Spain are lower than in other countries such as the United Sates, Japan and Australia.
This should help a country where, even if measures have been taken to reduce the number of accidents, the observed effects are still few. In fact Algeria with 7,5 million vehicles, has more than 40.000 traffic accident every year. In 2011, more than 4,500 people died on the roads and some 66.000 were injured.
