The law saves lives in the traffic.

    This report was published in Época magazine at 29th November 2010, and was written by Celso Masson, Alberto Cairo and Marco Vergotti. This is a summary and the title is above.

    The world day in memory of the victims of traffic, celebrated in the 21th november brought the launch forward of the decade of actions for the safety on vias criated by UNO(United Nations Organization).
    The target is to reduce the alarming world death rates caused by accidents on roads and on streets.
    The deaths in the traffic, were in 2004, the 9º cause of total of the deaths in the world, in 2030 could be the 5º cause in the ranking.
    In Brazil, the harden of laws since 1997,when was created the Brazilian traffic code, have shown positive results.
    Below, list of  the top ten countries with the deadliest traffic(deaths in the traffic by 100.000 vehicles).

    1º  Cambodia  1000,7                         6º  Mexico   68,1
    2º  Kenya   288,1                                7º  Brazil   67,3
    3º  Egypt   285,9                                 8º  China   61,6
    4º  India   145,4                                  9º  Vietnam   55,8
    5º  Russia   86,1                                 10º  Turkey   34,8

    Comparing national average of deaths with the numbers of deaths in each state, we can see that only four states and the DF stays below of the national average, the safest states are: 1º SP, 2º RS, 3º RJ, 4º SC. And two are around the national average: 5º MG, 6º PR. All the other states are above the national average and the top four states with the deadliest traffic are: 1º MA, 2º PI, 3º AL, 4º PA.
     In the same report, we can see that the percentagem of deaths in relation to total, shows that pedestrian 24,2% and motorcyclist 23,4% are almost half of the deads in the Brazilian traffic.