Ecuador Highways: One death every two hours recorded in accidents

They are in curves. At the bottom of chasms. In hills or sides of the road. His figure is symbolic funeral, but at the same time the memory of a tragedy that could have been avoided. Made stake or cement, with or without names, crosses planted along country roads account for a daily reality: every twenty minutes a traffic accident occurs in Ecuador and someone dies every four hours because of it.

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The calculation arises from the statistics of the National Traffic Agency (NTA) for the last three years, based on reports from provincial institutions and parts of the accidents. But the numbers that records SOAT (Statutory Accident Insurance Transit), where the victims or relatives of these go for economic claim, the picture is more critical: every ten minutes someone is injured and someone dies every two hours for this reason. Read Article.