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RECONSTRUCTION. Drive as fast as you wanted, without a seat belt and on 10 pints: 1972, with 3,101 road fatalities, the blackest year ever on Belgian roads | Interior

Belgian traffic has never been as deadly as it was in 1972. Earlier this week, the unveiling of a memorial in Hasselt could be heard. In that pitch black year alone, 3,101 men, women and children died on our roads. How the hell was that possible? “Simple: everything was possible and everything was allowed. Even driving without a seat belt with ten pints of beer in your blood.


Stefan Vanderstraeten


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