Three immediate measures to reduce up to 80% of traffic accidents are proposed by the Panhellenic Association of Driving Instructors. All this when in the last period of time accidents and deaths on the roads have increased, while aggression and delinquency on the roads have increased.

“We propose three measures to reduce accidents. Na reduce the speed limit throughout the urban fabric to 30 km/h, prohibit driving after using alcohol or psychotropic substances with a locking mechanism and unlocking the car. There are simple implementations on the market that do not cost more than 32 euros and can provide solutions. The mechanism can be checked during a roadworthiness test and the GSM signal in the car can be deactivated (it concerns mobile telephony). These three measures are what cause 80-85% of traffic accidents,” said the president of the Panhellenic Association of Driving Instructors, Aris Zografos, on the radio of the Athenian and Macedonian Agency, Agency 104.9 FM.

At the same time, he reiterated what the Greek driver must acquire traffic education. “We as a society need to acquire traffic intelligence. There should be traffic education as a main subject in school, so as to provide the necessary supplies for traffic literacy in the next generation. We also need to upgrade the new driver assessment system and invest in the lifelong learning of all drivers. I find that in recent years there are violations that did not exist in the past. This is an issue that concerns us, while we should know that road accidents are the inability of a country to protect its population”, he stressed.

Finally, Mr. Zografos, expressing the Panhellenic Association of Driving Instructors, disagreed “with the right to drive a motorcycle with a car license, with obtaining a license at 16 and 17 years old, with the outdated training and assessment of new drivers, with the need to adopt a new mobility culture which will be based on sustainable urban mobility, while the philosophy of fines should change”, he pointed out to continue: “fines should become a springboard for skills for offenders. If we manage to rely on traffic law, we could immediately give society a different mirror, another logic of compliance. When children learn about the traffic rules that prevail on the road, they create a very large umbrella inside the car, because they interfere with the parent, the grandfather, the uncle. These guys point out the driver’s typos. And we see this in the schools, where the great drivers tell us that they have a traffic warden in their car.”