ZAGREB, July 31 (Hina) - As of Monday, traffic safety on Croatian roads will be monitored by 12 new intercepting police cars and 70 motorcycles which the Interior Ministry purchased for 22 million kuna as part of a national plan for
traffic safety between 2006 and 2010.
ZAGREB, July 31 (Hina) - As of Monday, traffic safety on Croatian
roads will be monitored by 12 new intercepting police cars and 70 motorcycles
which the Interior Ministry purchased for 22 million kuna as part of a national
plan for traffic safety between 2006 and 2010. Minister Ivica Kirin
said the ministry intended to purchase four new intercepting cars this year
and more in the future so as to raise traffic safety and reduce the number of
accidents.
The ministry said the better equipment was intended to increase police
mobility and effectiveness and reduce the number of fatalities to the European
level -- less than 10 per 100,000 inhabitants annually.
Last year the number of traffic fatalities in Croatia was 597, a drop
from previous years.
(EUR1 = 7.25 kuna)