Traffic. the Number of wildlife accidents is increasing. And the risk of viltkollisioner is the largest in Kalmar county.
It shows statistics about accidents with wildlife during the first nine months of the National Viltolycksrådet.
so Far this year, there have been over 33 000 wildlife accidents. This is an increase of 7 percent compared with the same period last year.
– There can be many reasons. You can’t knit under the chair with to traffic police, in principle, disappeared from the roads of Sweden, ” says Lars-Erik Nilsson, managing director of National Viltolycksrådet.
He says that we can wait for more to trafiktempot increases and thus also the risk of accidents.
– October, november and december are the months when the number of accidents is higher, ” says Lars-Erik Nilsson.
Insurance company If has in an annual compilation figured out the risk of collisions in different counties by setting the number of reported accidents in relation to the number of registered vehicles in the counties.
At the top, i.e. with the highest risk, the ports of Kalmar county of 18.6 accidents per 1 000 vehicles, followed by Kronoberg (17,9) and Värmland (the 14.1). At the bottom is to be found in Västernorrland (4,1), Stockholm, sweden (2,8) and Norrbotten (2,3). The national average is 8.6 accidents per 1 000 registered vehicles.
But the statistics have shortcomings. The reindeer are not counted as wild, but is seen as a domestic. And Norrbotten, which has the lowest average at wildlife accidents, is at the top in terms of collisions with the clean. During the January to september occurred 673 renolyckor. It is almost twice as many accidents with wild game (354).
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Lars-Erik Nilsson, managing director of National Viltolycksrådet gives three advice.
– to Look not only at the way, read also by the terrain.
– Hold down the speed. The stopping distance is reduced.
– be especially vigilant at night, at dawn and at dusk when many animals are active.
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