The data of the ASAPS Observatory speak of 59 accidents in the first seven months of 2025. How to make the junctions safer, error -proof
Since the beginning of the year, the dead have been 10 and 108 wounded with a surge in July. It is the budget in human lives of the first seven months of 2025 of road accidents caused by vehicles that had to be countermean. These data do not come from the Interior Ministry but by the specific observatory established by ASAPS, the Association of supporters and friends of the Traffic Police. Even if the Crontics of the Officiatality are missing, these numbers photograph a situation that in statistical terms is not very relevant, but in human and social alarm terms it is very significant. Only between Sunday 27 and Thursday 31 July there were five victims of A4 and A22 motorways.
who causes accidents
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According to the data processed by the ASAPS in 2024 there were 110 episodes of accidents caused by the countermean on roads and highways, of which 16 mortals, which caused 20 deaths and 180 injured. 33 episodes on Autostrade and Superstrade 30%were of these. The association also developed a sort of identikit of drivers who traveled with their own means in the direction of travel forbidden before crashing: 13 people (11.8%) in a state of intoxication or under the influence of drugs; foreign people, 11 accidents (10%); Elderly 15 accidents (13.6%), a percentage that rises to 31.3% for accidents only with fatal victims, equal to five episodes out of 16 fatal accidents. In 2025, from January to July, the ASAPS-SAPIDATA OBSERVATORY recorded 59 episodes of which 22 on motorways and super-traces. As mentioned, there were seven mortal cases with 10 victims and 108 wounded in total. In four of the seven fatal episodes (57%), an elderly over 65 years involved.
what the countermenan causes
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The extreme danger of such episodes remains and the finger is often aimed at the elderly even if the case studied by ASAPS states that the reasons for the countermean can be many: “The causes can be manifold – explains Giordano Biseni, president of the association -. Certainly bad weather, certainly the fog, as well as a particular signs, in some cases perhaps also questionable”. Then there is the chapter of human behaviors “due to many factors. The distraction of the mobile phone, which is the new entry in the risk of the road, other situations that can be the escape of the police forces, cases in which the driver realizes that he has forgotten the portfolio of the service air distributor. There have even been cases of suicide”.
what to do, signs
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If it is difficult to influence individual behaviors, something can be done from the point of view of infrastructures to limit cases of countermean, for example “an even more evident vertical signs – explains Biserni – the famous yellow sign with the open black hand, as happens in some states bordering us. Especially an alarm mechanism could be activated for those who take the ramp or those who exit the service area in a ban which reads the car that takes the opposite direction and triggers a very strong acoustic sound or a very effective light signal and large red “.
License renewal
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Regarding the moment of renewal of the license to an elderly, the ASAPS president suggests, one could make sure that the verification of the person’s ability of the person does not stop only on sight and hearing but goes “to certify even if the cognitive orientation conditions are adequate ones”. However, in some cases “we will have to get to a point where it is said:” We renew her license, she can drive in the urban area to go to the supermarket, to the pharmacy, to go to eat pizza, to go even within the territory to the chestnut or truffle festival, but she can no longer drive on the highway and maybe in some cases it is not appropriate for her to drive the night “.
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