Without any war for ten years in the traffic accident quantitatively disappeared two such town as Shumilino. But the majority of the population and care about this no. They never thought about it, do not know and do not want to know.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health of Belarus reported over the last ten years in road accidents killed more than 18,000 people, and more than 70,000 were injured. Tragically, in our country die twice more people than in the EU, where the average number of deaths is 55 fatalities per 1 million population against 109 lost here. And in Belarus hit a pedestrian is the most common type of traffic accident (42%), one third of which is in the fall.
Agree with such high mortality of Belarusian roads impossible. But what to do? Firstly, the problem should sound - not from time to time, not from campaign to campaign, and daily. And above all, through televised debates, telerassuzhdeniya, teleoprosy. Second, information about the accident should be accessible and reliable. In other words, the way it should be in the XXI century, not the skimpy, which appears from the official site now. Yes, and it should disturb not only by the nature of the State Automobile Inspectorate of their activities, but above all the public.
Yes, something is definitely done. Done as was done in the Council: forced on the top, professional duty, and not through dialogue with civil society, not on the initiative from below.
Last year, the traffic police in Vitebsk region, as reported in the media, to correct the negative situation, "" The Hunt "pedestrian", violates the right to cross the street. In this raid were involved even in plain clothes officers who track offenders and handed them over to traffic police officers. Only one day on Moskovsky Prospect in Vitebsk from 6:00 to 9:00 o'clock in the morning was compiled 38 reports on administrative offenses. The numbers are impressive! But whether they influenced the public, legislators, on cops, the leadership of the city? .. The answer is obvious.
We decided to approach this problem from the other side and watch the how disciplined behave autodrivers, drove up to the uncontrolled pedestrian crossing, where pedestrians have the legal advantage, but have no objective counsel as a traffic light. It seems that a pedestrian crossing - this is the starting point by moving the order in which you can move on in the discipline of drivers and pedestrians.
As it is a shame, but in the last couple of years at pedestrian crossings Belarusian cities and Vitebsk including lost a lot of adults and children. Therefore, for the sake of objectivity, it should be noted that the assaults committed after all the drivers, and they have the primary responsibility for them.
A few years ago I was struck by the story demonstrated on television: in a crowded pedestrians and cars London drivers instantly stopped their cars as soon as the human foot hover over the pedestrian strip. I then thought: do not Belarusians would behave in a disciplined and responsible?
I think that could - and could not worse. But the point here in the absence of a legal culture in the absence of respect for people in general and human life in particular. The October Revolution, the Civil War, Stalin's repressions, World War II - that they are the stages of education is here indifference. Once divide people into friends and foes, it is difficult to accept the fact that the person who crosses the street on foot, does not differ from that sits behind the wheel of a car. Even when the value of the car rolls over.
Giving a lot of time observing the behavior of pedestrians and drivers before the crossing, we can draw the following conclusions: the behavior of these depends on the general culture, level of responsibility, time of day, there may be a number of traffic police officer, the location of the transition and many other factors ...
Morning. Beginning of the working day. Pedestrian crossing the street near the church Leningrad Euphrosyne. Machines are a continuous stream of apparent excess speed, aided by the landscape and the road surface. Nobody thinks to stop approaching the crossing. And even if someone from pedestrians decided to squeeze in some period between machines, repeat this heroic act, no one in danger.
Afternoon on the transfer of rights in much more pedestrians, especially with frequent presence of an inspector there. But in the evening, even when empty highway can run into extremals on any BMW that you simply can not miss.
In the center of the city where pedestrians are bolder and more likely to use their rights. Fortunately, there they have the numerical advantage, or not much inferior to it.
As shown, the most disciplined among drivers - the drivers of urban minibuses, taxis. But the owners of expensive cars, drivers of buses, heavy cars are stopped before proceeding without much enthusiasm.
There are problems with the observance of traffic rules on the transitions that have appeared recently, which drivers are not used to.
Certainly contribute Compliance pedestrian crossings in the form of "speed bumps." But they happen apparent violations. Witnessed such violations, we have near the gymnasium №4. Thus, the driver of the car did not threw speed and did not stop even when the student almost stepped on a transition.
It is our deep conviction that reduce the number of road accidents is possible only by means of a free and democratic education, which is based on respect for human rights and human life itself.
S. Horki
С. Горкі
