The Chamber of Companies for Control and Administration of Traffic Violations (CECAITRA)celebrated its anniversary with the presence of its members, officials and journalists on road matters, as well as organizations of relatives of victims of road incidents.
During the meeting, the traffic secretary of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Darío Antiñoloand Teresa of Melanofrom the National Network of Relatives of Traffic Victims.
The president of CECAITRA, Bernardino Garcia He stressed that “all of us who meet here today consider that the consequences of road insecurity, both in its economic aspect and in the pain it causes, can be, at least, diminished.”
“In Argentina, the number of deaths from road accidents has been reduced by more than half from 2013 to 2024.for every 100 thousand vehicles, which is the measurement used by the World Health Organization (WHO). So, in 2013, for every 100,000 vehicles, 63 people died per 100,000 vehicles in the vehicle fleet per year and in 2024, 32 have died,” García explained.
And he added that: “The figures are an achievement of all those who are here, of all those who understand, of all those who want lives not to be lost for no reason.. According to the WHO, the cost of road insecurity in developing countries ranges between 3 and 5% of the gross domestic product. If this happened, 1.5% of the gross domestic product has been economically reduced. Without firing anyone, without firing anyone, without closing any factory and saving lives, avoiding costs, avoiding pain.”
García also expressed that “Unfortunately, in recent years the concept of road awareness, which we use so much in CECAITRA, was replaced and mutated into the expression fotomulta. We no longer talk about road safety, we talk about the fotomulta. But the fotomulta is only one tool of several to achieve the objective of saving lives”.
“The conclusion is that absolutely we are all users of public roads, where the victims that we try to avoid occur. So, we are all victims and perpetrators. The WHO classifies road insecurity as a pandemic. A problem in which absolutely all of us are a part, in one way or another we are participants. As pedestrians, as drivers or companions,” he said.
Finally, García said: “Road insecurity continues to be the leading cause of death for young people in the world. Why do we deny the applicant for his first license or the one who renews it until he is 29 years old information about his possibility of death? Giving this information to young people would transform the procedure into a mutual contract between the user of public roads and the one who obtains the license, with the responsibilities and adequate knowledge that they do not have today.
“I still do not understand why a driver’s license is issued only by knowing the meaning of the signs and signage. Why, in addition to explaining and showing him that sign, don’t we try to make him understand the consequences of not complying with what the sign means? They know what it prohibits or indicates, but they do not know what happens if they do not comply,” García concluded.
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