The number of people who died in road accidents in 2022 has been announced.

According to the information given to APA by the State Statistics Committee, there were 1668 traffic accidents in 2022 or 1.2 percent more than in 2021.

It was noted that the number of people affected by these incidents increased by 6.1 percent to 2290 people.

834 of them were killed and 1456 were injured.

45.0 percent of incidents occurred during the day, 37.9 percent at night, 17.1 percent at dusk, and 31.2 percent occurred on Saturdays and Sundays of the week.

Also, 84.6 percent of traffic accidents occurred in residential areas, the number of people killed as a result of these incidents increased by 6.3 percent to 588 people compared to last year, and the number of injured people decreased by 2.5 percent to 1330 people.

Aysel Shahmar