Since the beginning of the month, several traffic accidents have been recorded in Montenegro, in which eight people lost their lives, the Police Directorate announced, urging drivers to drive more carefully.
The Police Department said that driving becomes significantly riskier during the summer and that fatigue, dehydration, driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, and reduced concentration can have tragic consequences.
"Despite the fact that the Police Directorate is doing everything possible to prevent traffic accidents with the most serious consequences through preventive and repressive activities, we must emphasize that the traffic police are not omnipotent, nor can they be in every place at all times, where drivers commit the most serious traffic violations," the Police Directorate stated.
As they pointed out, some of the accidents occurred even a few hundred meters from traffic police patrols or places where drivers were being checked.
"What is particularly worrying is that in a significant number of accidents that occurred, only one vehicle was involved, or the accident occurred on a section of road that, due to its structural characteristics, does not pose a particular danger to drivers," the police said.
They said that it can therefore be reasonably concluded that the cause of the traffic accident was solely the driver's carelessness or negligence.
The Police Directorate appealed to drivers to refrain from fast and uncontrolled driving, because only in this way can they save themselves, but also other road users, from serious consequences.
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