Approximately about 1,000 young people die every day in the world in road accidents.
In this, Argentina is in concordance with the rest of the world.
54 percent of dead in happened traffic accidents in the country are young people among 14 and 35 years.
In 2006, according to a relief realized by the nongovernmental organization Luchemos por la vida, 8,104 was the people who died in tragedies in routes and streets of all the country.
This means that the national average of deaths in traffic accidents is 675 victims per month, something as well as 22 per day.
Argentina occupies the second place in the world-wide ranking of road deaths.
In the Instituto de Seguridad y Educacion Vial ISEV explains the best way to evaluate the scale is each 100,000 habitants to give projection to the problem.
In the United States, for example, 130 people per day die in traffic accidents. But its park and its population are enormously greater to ours.
But the amount of automobiles and its population are enormously greater than ours.
"Considering that index, in the United States the scale is of 15 dead each 100,000 habitants, explains in a interview of Clarin daily, Eduardo Bertotti, Director of the ISEV.
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