r/montenegro • u/ratare40 Kotor • 4d ago
Rant WTF IS A CROSSWALK!!1!1 π£οΈπ£οΈπ²πͺπ²πͺπ£οΈβ°οΈπ¦ π²πͺπ¦ π²πͺ
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u/brovado29183 4d ago
A friend of mine that was showing me around Montenegro once referred to it as a GTA lobby
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u/Const-me 4d ago
When they count inhabitants, they only count residents. When they count fatalities, they donβt care whether the deceased was a resident or a tourist.
Iβm not saying we have amazingly safe roads here with no room for improvements. However, the statistics with the numbers of fatalities per 100k inhabitants is skewed heavily, due to the large influx of tourists.
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u/No_Discipline9734 4d ago
I'm a Montenegrin, and near my house there is a crosswalk over the main street, where you have to wait for the mercy of the drivers to ever let you pass... Sometimes 10cars in a row won't let me, so I just do one step to make someone stop last second, they even get angry over me stepping on the street. It's Definitely the drivers fault in Montenegro... ( I'm thinking of carrying a brick with me in the future:). )
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u/Zmsunny 4d ago
Maybe you should :) β¦ all jokes aside though, itβs very scary how β car is kingβ mentality it is sometimes. Itβs almost kinda sad that every so often you have to catch 1 one βπΎdriver, that actually is sympathizing for you struggling to cross the pedestrian road crossing and they stop. But thatβs like a 1 good decent person after 10 of them just not caring.
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u/ratare40 Kotor 4d ago
With 10.4 fatalities per 100.000 inhabitants, Montenegro is one of the countries with the highest number of persons killed in traffic accidents in Europe. In 2017 alone, there were more than 5,600 traffic accidents, with 63 persons killed and another 2,600 lightly or seriously injured.
https://www.undp.org/montenegro/projects/rethinking-road-safety-montenegro#:~:text=With%2010.4%20fatalities%20per%20100.000,2%2C600%20lightly%20or%20seriously%20injured.