Twenty-six people were killed and 2,499 injured, 68 of them seriously, in 1,764 traffic accidents in urban areas during the week of July 10 to 16, according to Morocco’s Direction Générale de la Sécurité Nationale (DGSN, National Police).
These accidents were mainly due to drivers’ inadvertence, failure to give way, speeding, failure to keep a safe distance, pedestrians’ inadvertence, changing direction without using a signal, and failure to control vehicles, among others, the DGSN said in a press release.
With regard to the control and repression of traffic offences, the security services drew up 39,117 contraventions, while 31,184 transactional fines were collected, the same source reported.
The sums collected in respect of these fines amounted to 7,077,000 dirhams, according to the press release, which also reported that 5,208 vehicles had been impounded, 7,933 documents seized and 368 vehicles taken off the road.
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