A driver was close to an accident, on DN1 Alba Iulia – Teiuș, in the Sântimbru area, after another driver made a dangerous overtaking. To avoid the impact, he had to go off the road.
“Criminal” overtaking on the continuous line PHOTO video capture Youtube
The incident occurred on October 7, around 1:00 p.m. The driver, who was driving in the direction of Alba Iulia – Teiuș, said that he was surprised by an Opel Astra car that overtook a TIR, while other cars were coming from the opposite direction.
In the images published on the Internet, the Opel Astra can be seen overtaking, without making sure that no car is coming from the opposite direction. When the driver, who was driving normally, realized what was happening, he pulled the steering wheel and left the roadway, avoiding a frontal impact.
“Only the reflex to pull as far as possible to the right, until I left the road, meant that there was no accident,” said the man who was behind the wheel.
Romania ranks first in Europe in the number of road accidents. According to the National Institute of Statistics, more than 70 accidents take place on the country’s roads every day. More than 70% of them happen during the day, and 87% happen on dry roads.
In 2022, there were, on average, 76 accidents per day, which means, in a single year, more than 28,000 accidents throughout the country. As a result of these accidents, every day, on average, four Romanians died.
In total, almost 1,500 people died last year on Romanian roads and around 3,500 were injured. At European level, the safest roads are in Sweden (18 deaths per million inhabitants), while Romania (93/million) reported the highest rate in 2021, the year for which we have aggregated figures at EU level.
The number of deaths in Romania is more than double the European average (the EU average was 44 road deaths per million inhabitants)
2023-10-09 10:54:37
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