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Traffic accidents in the urban center of Constantine.
Trifa Mohamed
University of Constantine Institute of Urban technologies Department: City management and development
Email: trifa.mohamedlamine@gmail.com
Introduction:
Traffic inside or outside in the city is considered
as the main factor that affect both the driver and
the commuter, accidents which are considered as
the most important consequences of resulting
from terrible traffic jams and gridlocks
especially in major cities, it also represents an
economical burden that weighs on national
governments especially in countries with a rate
of accidents.
Road accidents are regarded as the major cause
for the deaths of millions of people yearly,
especially young adults, whereas the economical
effects of accidents do not result only in death
but also in partial and complete paralysis, cost of
vehicles, property and the complete halting of
traffic for a certain period, where a closing of a
main road might lead to a massive gridlock,
especially in the peak of rush hours .
In Algeria , there has been encouraging signs ,
especially what was brought forward by the
ministry of public labor as programs categorized
as a network of road and network facilities, on
the same path the ministry of transportation
launched a project adjust law 14-01 that resulted
in law 16-01 dated in November 10th 2004 and
the executive decree N° 381 related to the rules
of traffic that was passed on November 8th 2004
that was even stricter especially in the field of
traffic tickets and despite that a current
inspection on the reality of traffic problems and
organizing it requires a lot of efforts to be put
together amidst all the partners to put the
national policy into action through depending on
a clear strategy which will be able to be put into
action in a form of finding realistic solutions that
are coherent to the nature of a futuristic strategy
to economical evolution, finding evolution
alternatives and lasting treatment not just
circumstantial to a certain time or place [1]
.
In this article we will elaborate the number of
infractions according to the fine arbitrariness ,
the evolution of traffic accidents , according to
age and sex, the timing of accidents per day and
week , and the black points in the urban areas of
Constantine Municipality, and the most
dangerous traffic infractions, that lead to traffic
accidents, and its reasons that often lead back to
the driver, vehicle, road or the general
environment. And all of this in an attempt to
control and minimize the number of accidents
that take lives and the blocking of roads on a
daily basis.
To study the problems and factors that have led
to traffic accidents in the urban area of
Constantine, We are going to analyze the main
points of the issue through asking the following
questions:
What are the main reasons that lead to
traffic accidents in the urban area of
Constantine?
What are the main programs put forward
by the government to stop the infractors?
How far does it affect both citizen and
state?
1) Traffic security in Algeria[2]:
In spite of the law amendment, and what it has
brought as stricter sanctioning upon infractors,
awareness is an essential task into laying
foundation of traffic culture in order to find a
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compatible procedure between humans, vehicles
and roads.
According to a statistical study for road
accidents prepared by the national prevention
center and security on roads , road accidents on a
national scale had reached 40481 in 2008 which
resulted in 64708 injured and 4422 casualties,
and the attached diagram shows the sharp growth
in road accidents in the past decades, a situation
that requires serious thought, and to take
efficient actions that minimizes human,
psychological and economical losses that Algeria
makes from these occurrences.
Diagram 1: the evolution of traffic accidents in Algeria 1998-2008
Source: Kebich Abdelhakim previous source p156
2) Geographical distribution of urban accidents according to region , the following chart shows:
Chart (02): distribution of number of urban accidents according to state year 2008
Rank State # of accidents %
1 Algers 144 8.2%
2 Constantin
e
93 5.3%
3 Msila 71 4.0%
4 Setif 71 4.0%
5 Tlemcen 68 3.9%
Source: Kebich Abdelhakim previous source p158
As portrayed in the chart , Constantine landed in
second place nationally through number of
accidents by 930 accidents with a rate of 5.3%
which is very high and dangerous on the
national scale, which requires our cautiousness
and trying to redress the situation.
3) Traffic infractions in Constantine:
Traffic infractions are considered as the
main reason for accidents, disabling
traffic and priority. The government
depends on arbitrary sanctions and
driving license suspension or revoking in
an effort to minimize traffic infractions.
The following charts summarize the
infractions according to arbitrary
sanctions, starting from the second
semester in 2012 to October 2014
overall in the urban centers and this is
due to the lack of statistics according to
each municipality.
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Chart 3: summary of infraction categories according to arbitrary sanctions and its figures 2nd semester
2012
Infraction category according
to arbitrary sanctions (D A)
Paid infractions Unpaid infractions sum
2000-2500 920 176 1096
2000-3000 623 111 734
2000-4000 10360 1641 12061
4000-6000 1452 186 1638
Total 13355 2114 15469
Source: Directory of national security and Unit of road protection and traffic + researcher’s effort
Chart 4: summary of infraction categories according to arbitrary sanctions and its figures 1st and 2nd
semester 2013.
Source: Directory of national security and Unit of road protection and traffic + researcher’s effort.
Chart 5: summary of infraction categories according to arbitrary sanctions and its figures 1st and 2nd
semesters july- october 2014.
Infraction category
1
st semester 2
nd semester 1
st semester 2
nd semester 1
st semester 2
nd semester
Paid
infractions
Paid
infractions
Unpaid
infractions
Unpaid
infractions
Total Total
2000-2500 1010 463 203 109 1213 566
2000-3000 659 305 119 43 778 348
2000-4000 11588 5545 1864 887 13452 6432
4000-6000 1507 6147 194 67 1701 508
Total 14764 12460 2380 1106 17144 7854
Source: Directory of national security and Unit of road protection and traffic + researcher’s effort
Infraction Category 1
st
semester 2
nd
semester
1
st
semester
2
nd
semester
1
st
semester
2
nd semester
Paid
infractions
Paid
infractions
Unpaid
infractions
Unpaid
infractions
total Total
2000-2500 1060 835 274 204 1334 1039
2000-3000 1021 768 257 173 1278 941
2000-4000 13314 9546 3286 1849 16600 11395
4000-6000 825 798 198 123 1023 921
Total 16220 11947 4014 2349 20235 14296
