All partial or general actions for greater traffic safety are significant, but they are insufficient until optimal solutions appropriate to our conditions and mentality are legislated. That is why it is inevitable to ask the question - who is responsible for deaths, injuries, disabilities, material damages... as a result of inadequate behavior in traffic:

- Drivers have the greatest responsibility: speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol, using a mobile phone while driving, not wearing a seat belt, technically defective vehicle...

And then, part of the responsibility lies with:

- institutions and individuals from the traffic police, - institutions and individuals from the judiciary, - the Government of Montenegro has a great responsibility if it does not propose optimal legal solutions, and - the greatest responsibility lies with the Parliament of Montenegro and its members individually, if they do not adopt optimal legal solutions on the proposal of the Government .

Does everyone understand from the previous items what it means not to contribute to save the life of just one person, let alone dozens of them. (Think how you would feel if someone close to you was killed and could have been saved). No matter how good the old and new legal solutions are, they will not have a great effect until the system known in many regulated countries is applied in our country - a unique (central) electronic system that automatically registers every type of violation and relevant data about the driver and the vehicle. Without the possibility to include well-known Montenegrin connections and acquaintances, everything is erased like an eraser. Ate the cat.

And it is even more important: establish a unique central electronic system in which every violation will be automatically evaluated with negative points and entered into the system, so after a limited number of violations, the driver's license will be revoked for at least half a year or for a year. There is also a variant that, in the meantime, the driver whose license has been revoked attends a traffic safety education course and takes an exam. All, of course, at your own expense.

This system would track irresponsible drivers because:

- A large number of drivers for whom it is a profession will be very careful, because revocation of the license will often mean the loss of their job. Better than losing your life. - The rich, who don't mind paying a fine no matter how much it is, will be careful, because they need to drive either for business or for showing off. - Ordinary drivers will accept it the easiest.

- And mobile phones? There is no way that the police can control the drivers, unless the new regulations stipulate that the driver's phone must be switched off while driving. Well, if an urgent call is expected, stop at an extension and have a conversation.

Why so much attention to phones? Experts in traffic safety issues, based on a preliminary investigation, claim that the use of a mobile phone while driving is a cause of accidents equal to driving under the influence of alcohol. The solution, therefore, is not complicated.

Of course, in addition to all this, preventive and educational programs are also implied, whereby the media, above all, public (state) services (RTVCG and Pobjeda), as their regular programming obligation, are expected to at least shorten the advertising space. And the rest of the media should be paid with funds collected from sanctions for misdemeanors. Therefore, the project can be self-sustaining. Everything else, in the Montenegrin society of relationships and acquaintances, will give insufficient results as before.

If the Parliament and the Government do not pass significantly new, more efficient regulations and rules, they will have a number of lives on their conscience that the new, more efficient rules would have saved.

And rescue from death and disability in traffic accidents has not only a humane character. These are also hundreds of millions of savings on treatment, rehabilitation, and disability pensions.

For an education program that would be embedded in human consciousness, it should be introduced, at least on a minimal scale, as a requirement in school classes. And that, from the first grade. To embed in a person's consciousness that "Take care, and Heaven will take care of you."

(This, respected President of the Assembly, Mr. Brajović, is my small contribution to the public debate on traffic safety).

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P.S. Here is a short excerpt from the report of the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro for one characteristic year:

During 2016, 5.229 traffic accidents were recorded. The number of people killed in traffic accidents in 2016 was 65. During 2016, 2.358 road users were injured, of which 1.900 were slightly injured, while 458 were seriously injured. During this period, 2.442 driver's licenses were temporarily confiscated. Bearing in mind all of the above, the state of traffic safety in 2016 cannot be considered satisfactory, but it is still in line with the recommendation of the European Commission for the countries of Southeast Europe, that the number of fatalities in traffic accidents should not exceed 10 per 100.000 citizen.