International Traffic Accidents
Travelling abroad not only includes foreign culture nut also a different way of traffic behaviour. Even if not having the problem of a right or left hand wheel, in every country the way of traffic behaviour differs, not only for motor vehicles but for pedestrians as well.
Road danger is a man-made crisis, with human error accounting for over 90% of accidents.
A road accident is a consequence of the quality of the road transport system or a break in the balance between the environmental demand and the driver’s ability to act.
Especially in touristic areas Ninety percent of our road accidents are related to bad driving behaviour — driving recklessly and speeding under the influence of alcohol, changing lanes without signalling, driving on the hard shoulder and passing through red lights.
Since a traffic accident is almost out of control, our office makes sure that the compensation because of a traffic accident is NOT.
In Alcibiades Chatzantonis & Associates Law Office, we make sure that our clients have a full and on the spot knowledge of the applicable law, the consequences, the rights and the time limit.
Global Figures
- 1.3 million road deaths occur every year
- More than 50 million people are seriously injured every year
- There are 3,500 deaths a day or 150 every hour, and nearly three people get killed on the road every minute
- The number of traffic fatalities will rise by 67 percent over the period of 2000-2020, 68 percent in the Middle East and North African region and 144 percent in Southeast Asia
- Middle and low-income countries to see an increase in traffic deaths of 83 percent by 2020
- Europe and other high-income countries to decrease traffic deaths by 27 percent over the period 2000-2020.
- The UN goal is to halve the number of road victims by 2020
- $3 trillion (USD) is the cost of road crashes every year