{"id":13858,"date":"2017-02-27T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:26:53","slug":"in-2016-for-violation-of-traffic-rules-imposed-azn-85-4-mln-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=13858&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"In 2016 for violation of traffic rules imposed AZN 85.4 mln fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Azerbaijan\u2019s traffic police imposed AZN 85.4 million fine for the violation of traffic rules in 2016, the State Statistics Committee told APA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 2016, there were 9.6% fewer road accidents in Azerbaijan, compared to 2006 and 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A total of 2,762 people fell victim to these accidents, which is a 12.6% decrease compared to the past year. Of them, 759 were killed and 2003 injured. Of the accidents, 44% happened during the daytime, 36.4% at night, 19.6% at dusk. 28.7% occurred at the weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">87% of the accidents happened in residential areas, killing 497 people (15.3% decrease compared to 2015) and leaving 1,877 others injured (11.6% decrease compared to 2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">44% of the accidents involved vehicles and pedestrians, 36.4% two or more vehicles, 19.6% a sole vehicle. These figures have fallen by 4.4%, 8.5% and 21% respectively, compared to 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">76.8% of those killed in traffic accidents and 70.6% of the injured were men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">During the reporting period, 37 road accidents were caused by drunken drivers, killing 18, injuring 34. 78.4% of such accidents were committed by drivers of passenger cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Compared to last year\u2019s records, the number of driving related administrative offences rose by 13% to 2,861 900. 50% of the offences were related with exceeding high speed limits, 11.9% with stopping or parking, 5.1% with failure to comply with the requirements of road signs, 4.6% with crossing intersections and 4.2% with not wearing a seat belt and the remaining with other reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s traffic police imposed AZN 85.4 million fine for the violation of traffic rules in 2016, the State Statistics Committee told APA. In 2016, there were 9.6% fewer road accidents in Azerbaijan, compared to 2006 and 2015. A total of 2,762 people fell victim to these accidents, which is a 12.6% decrease compared to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}