In the 18 districts where the GNR operates, there were 1,696 pedestrians run over in 2015 and a further 1,922 in 2016.
The figures provided by the GNR General Command showed that of the total 3,618 people, 119 were killed. In 2016, 61 pedestrians were killed compared to 58 in 2015.
Hit-and-run accidents occurred on eight occasions in 2015, which fell to four the following year.
According to the GNR’s provisional figures 1,411,421 drivers were stopped and checked in 2016 and 75,494 road-traffic accidents were recorded in the same year, along with 391 deaths, 1,519 people seriously injured and 23,636 injured.
Average of five people run over every day in Portugal
In 2015 and 2016 Portuguese police force Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) recorded 3,618 incidents of pedestrians being run over on mainland Portugal’s roads, an average of five per day.
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These figures are terrible, so sad for all involved.
I have two comments to make, apart from my sincere regret at this pointless death toll. The first is that in my experience many Portuguese people do not look, or seem to have little idea how hard it is to bring a vehicle to a stop in the space they allow you by stepping off the road. This is not their fault but it is a public health issue.
My second point is that modern cars are almost always much, much better at protecting pedestrians in the event of a collision than old cars, and the Portuguese government's taxation policy which makes new cars almost unaffordable, forces drivers to use cars that will almost certainly kill a pedestrian at anything over 40km/hour. It's time ancient, lethal vehicles were driven off the road and the taxation on new cars and imported modern cars slashed to levels in keeping with our EU neighbours.
By Nick Bowles from Beiras on 04 Feb 2017, 15:55