Data from the Traffic Department of Turkish police shows Traffic accidents killed 920 people 127,619 others were wounded inside first six months of 2022. main cause of accidents were driver error.
a total of 88,000 accidents were reported across the country in The same period, which included nearly 70,000 cars and more More than 25,000 motorcycles. the majority of accidents were in Residential areas while the rest took place in Rural areas of Country with Scattered population or along highways.
driver error topped up list of causes of accidents, while about 10,316 accidents were result of Pedestrian errors. There were 2,260 accidents caused due to glitch vehicles. speed was main error on The drivers’Part, though transgression on narrow roads also It proved dangerous.
The most populous in the country city Istanbul had highest number of accidents, in more from 11000 with 58 people dying in those accidents. In the capital Ankara 39 people Die in 6,335 incidents in The first six months of The year. The number of victims of traffic accidents reached 34 in The third largest province in the country is Izmir in same period. Ardahan in The lowest number was in northeastern Turkey of accidents with just 50, output in one 104 people permanent injuries.
also in same period of 2022, the traffic police issued more More than 10 million fines and bans more from 606000 vehicles of traffic for a range of safety violations.
according to official Numbers, more More than 1.1 million accidents occurred all over Turkey in 2021, which is higher The numbers for 2019 and 2020 are lower than for 2018. However, this resulted in only 187,963 accidents in deaths or injuries.
