{"id":122581,"date":"2011-08-31T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T08:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=122581"},"modified":"2011-09-01T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T09:08:35","slug":"introduction-of-mandatory-car-insurance-artificially-inflated-rise-in-road-accidents-in-armenia-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/31\/introduction-of-mandatory-car-insurance-artificially-inflated-rise-in-road-accidents-in-armenia-police.html","title":{"rendered":"Introduction of Mandatory Car Insurance Artificially Inflated Rise in Road Accidents in Armenia: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first 7 months of 2011, there were 1,135 traffic accidents recorded in Armenia, as a result of which 150 people died, while 1,697 people received bodily injuries, said chief of the road patrol service division of Armenia&#8217;s traffic police Norik Sargsyan, while meeting with journalists in the Armenian capital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The police chief noted that compared to the same period <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/12\/armenias-road-police-achieved-desired-results-in-2010.html\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">last year<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, traffic accidents increased by 143, the number of deaths increased by 14, and the number of those injured rose by 357.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On one hand, the introduction of APPA [mandatory vehicle insurance introduced at the start of this year] encouraged the recording of all accidents which resulted in an artificial increase; on the other hand, the number of imported vehicles is growing quite rapidly. In the [first] 7 months of 2011 alone, 15,428 vehicles were imported into Armenia, which is a 15% increase. The increase [in traffic accidents] is due to this, but there&#8217;s nothing unusual in this. There were only 150 deaths in 7 months, while in previous years there were 300\u2013400 deaths. That is to say, in terms of an increase in the number of deaths, we have nothing to be concerned about,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first 7 months of 2011, there were 1,135 traffic accidents recorded in Armenia, as a result of which 150 people died&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20749,65942,15608,14641,29899,29900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}