Broken cars on posts – Tbilisi launches new road safety campaign
The initiator of the campaign is as of yet unknown. Photo by Facebook user Tika Jaliashvili.
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Tbilisi residents awoke to a strange sight on the roads today: destroyed cars mounted upside down on posts at several locations across the city.
Supposedly the installations are meant to remind drivers to drive slow and carefully.
Tbilisi City Hall says a local company installed the vehicles but does not want to say its name. Photo by Facebook user El Ene.
The initiator of the campaign is as of yet unknown.
Tbilisi City Hall told Rustavi 2 that a local, well-known company installed the damaged vehicles as a part of a campaign.
The agency says the company was permitted by City Hall, but the parties agreed to keep the information on the author of the project confidential.
Road accidents in Georgia claimed 459 lives in 2019. Photo by Facebook user El Ene.
The number of road accidents have significantly increased especially in the last two years in Georgia.
According to data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 6,079 road accidents occurred in 2017 which claimed 517 lives. The number of road accidents reached 6,452 in 2018 with 459 dead and 9,047 injured.
An early warning system in the Black Sea port town of Poti has been installed, announces Georgian Air Navigation of the Ministry of Economy.
Georgia and Tajikistan have signed a memorandum of understanding on air traffic, announces the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency.
Civil liability insurance will become mandatory for owners of registered vehicles in Georgia.
6,608 individuals have been killed and up to 85,946 received injuries in Georgia in road accidents over the past ten years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says.
Patrol Police in Georgia will be equipped with portable plate number detectors in order to identify high-risk drivers, Deputy Interior Minister Nino Javakhadze told Imedi TV.
Deaths caused by traffic accidents across Georgia have decreased by 22.6 percent in March while the number of accidents themselves also went down, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia reported on Friday.
3,764 road accidents have been reported in Georgia between January and August 2019, with 314 killed and 5,212 injured, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs is launching the second stage of its road safety campaign “For more Life” starting today, said Georgian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Nino Javakhadze today.
22,590 pedestrians have been fined in Tbilisi between January and September 2019 for violating traffic rules while the figure was 12,685 in the same period of last year, the Georgian Interior Ministry told IPN news agency.
One passenger has been killed and 12 others injured as a minibus and a truck collided in Tbilisi earlier today, IPN reports citing the Georgian Interior Ministry.
Five minors, 17-year-old boys, have died in a road accident in the Mtirala Park of Adjara region, in western Georgia earlier today.
One individual has been killed and 22 received injuries in a road accident in Turkey involving a bus passengers on Tbilisi-Istanbul route, Rustavi 2 has reported earlier today.
A bill put forward to the Georgian parliament proposes to identify dangerous parts on Georgian highways with black dots.
Vehicle customs clearance fees will be postponed until March 2021, said Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia earlier today, noting that 24,000 car owners will benefit from this postponement.
The Georgian ministries of infrastructure and internal affairs are launching a public information campaign to raise awareness on the importance of road safety in the country, with the European Union lending the bodies its support in the effort.