“The major issue of the unbearable blood tax on the Greek asphalt every year and its ways of dealing with it,” the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament discussed Nikitas Kaklamanis With the president of the Panos Mylonas Road Safety Institute, Basilica Danelli-Mylonaswhich he accepted today in his office. According to the House announcement, Mr N. Kaklamanis pointed out that it was no coincidence that the meeting took place today, Thursday, which culminates in the Easter exit, and expressed the hope that we would not count a single victim on the asphalt. Because, as she explained, “in a country where its first issue and problem is demographic, losing hundreds of people every year – and mainly young – worsens the situation and pain.”
At this point, the Speaker of the House said that Mrs Danellis-Mylonas, “is a woman who has experienced the pain, but who has turned into positive energy for Greek society.” On behalf of the Greek Parliament, Mr N. Kaklamanis thanked for the Institute’s contribution to the State and beyond the cooperation with the relevant Special Committee, assured that the president’s door would be open to anything that the House can help with the ruling.
For her part, the President of the Panos Mylonas Road Safety Institute, Mr. Danellis-Mylonas, thanked the Speaker of the House for the support, pointing out that road safety was about protecting life, but also with the Demographic Committee, and with the Committee on the Committee. received and attributed to other countries. As he said, the Institute is next to society, next to the state and under the auspices of the Hellenic Parliament, there is hope that things will go better in our country and will not mourn another child, who grows up with love, care, investing in hopes.
According to the memorandum with statistics presented The president of IOA “Panos Mylonas”our country is in the third worst position of the EU in terms of traffic accidents, after Romania and Bulgaria. Typically, in Greece we mourn 61 dead per million inhabitants, when Finland and Norway have 17 dead and Sweden 20, while the average in Europe is 40 dead.
According to ELSTAT, there has been an increasing trend of traffic accidents and deaths in our country after the Koroneovirus pandemic and especially in the last two years. In 2023 we had 646 dead in 10,553 traffic and in 2024, respectively, 664 dead in 11,346 accidents.