OREANDA-NEWS. July 08, 2013. The Government is elaborating a program of improvement of traffic safety on motor roads and reducing of number of accidents.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov announced onduring his meeting with Prince Michael of Kent.

“We are working on elaboration of a serious program called to ensure road safety and we will be grateful to you for providing information in this issue,” Mykola Azarov has said.

In turn, Prince Michael of Kent stressed that on the data of a special commission created within the UNO, the member of which he is, the largest number of people in the world die from AIDS, typhoid and in the result of road accidents.

“And in the framework of this commission we have put an extremely ambitious task – from 2010 till 2020 to shorten twofold the number of road accidents, which lead to death or severe injuries for the victims. Certainly, deaths or severe injuries as a result of road accidents appear extraordinary huge grief for the families and friends, but from the economic point of view it is also an exceedingly serious problem. We have calculated in Great Britain that each road accident is worth to the budget of one million dollars, as it demands payments for services of hospitals, insurance policies, services of lawyers, police etc.,” Prince Michael of Kent has explained.

At the same time he promised all the materials which were in possession of the special commission would be directed to Ukrainian Government.