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Sun, 23 Aug, 2015 12:09:14 AM FTimes – STT Report, Aug 23  The Minister of Transport and Communications, Anne Berner. File Photo Lehtikuva. Transport and Communications Minister Anne Berner on Saturday said road traffic posed a concrete threat to national security.
Talking to the news agency STT, Berner also said that road traffic must be a part of the monitoring of internal security.
The minister made the remarks one day after a nine-year child was killed at the Mechelininkatu-Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu intersection in Helsinki in an accident on Friday afternoon.
A ministerial monitoring group deals with the fight against crime, external security and cyber security.
According to Berner, it is essential that road safety is treated as part of the package. Berner said this has been agreed to.
People placed toys , flowers and candles mourning the death of a nine-year girl in an accident at the Mechelininkatu-Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu intersection in Helsinki on Friday. Photo Lehtikuva. The first half of the year has been grim for road safety. So far, there have already been 10 deaths more than in the same period last year.
Last year, 36 people were killed on the road and 420 pedestrians injured. One in three of the injured was a child or young person.
Over the past three years, 33 people [on the road] have died on an average a year, with 470 pedestrians injured.
Crossing the road is not the safest thing to do. Over the past three years, about a third of road traffic fatalities for pedestrians and about half of all pedestrian injuries occurred at crosswalks.
According to a 2014 study by the Liikenneturva (Traffic Safety), as many as 63 per cent of drivers feel that pedestrians cross streets without checking the traffic first.
The number of deaths and injuries has decreased over the past decade. The number of pedestrians killed by traffic has been reduced by a quarter, the number of injuries by a third.
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