Informational and analytical newspaper MONEY 26.06.07g.

the world every year from road accidents kill more than 1, 2 million people. According to the World Health Organization, every year in the world of road accidents killed more than 1.2 million people. Scientists in the next 20 years projected an increase that figure by 65%. The magnitude of road traffic injuries in Ukraine far ahead of those found in most countries of the world. Only in 2006 in Ukraine took place 49 491 road traffic accident, which killed 7,592 and injured 60,018 people. As compared with 200 a year can say that the number of accidents on the roads of Ukraine for the period increased by 42.8%. According to calculations Ukrainian sociologists, every 16 minutes on the country's roads are an accident. Every two hours they someone dies, and a sad figure increases to an average of five thousand people a year - said in a press release The reasons for this disturbing situation much. CJSC Ukrainian Insurance House "- a company specializing in automobile insurance, collects and analyzes statistics on the causes of accidents. According to our data, close to the congestion of roads that were built during the Soviet Union and are not designed for high traffic flows (but only in the last year in Ukraine, sold 370,000 new cars), the poor condition of road surface, poor regulation and the main cause of traffic was the low level of driver training and driving culture of road users. Consequently, to convince the President of the Board of JSC "Ukrainian Insurance House" Michael Berlin, to start solving the acute problem of growth accidents on domestic roads need first of all, the issue of granting the status of the state of awareness of the fact that her decision was in need of strong-willed and decisive actions by the state. "We have monitored the reaction of States and the public to the problem of increasing the level of accidents on roads in the states of Europe - says Berlin. - World Health Organization, together with the World Bank published the text of the World report on road traffic injury prevention, from 23 to 29 April 2007 the UN was the behavioral First Global Road Safety Week, an active interest in these issues are often international charities and foundations. Recently, the problem of influential Vatican responded by extending the 10 commandments for drivers. Russia has adopted and embodied a large-scale federal program "to improve road safety in the years 2006-2012, aimed at reducing the accident rate. In Ukraine, this problem has not yet been raised at the proper level, to date there is no public project that could reduce the accident rate on roads. The second method of overcoming the problem of accidents Mikhail Berlin sees the reduction to the corresponding level of primary care - the process of driver training. CJSC Ukrainian Insurance House, Society for the Defense of Ukraine (the largest society for drivers) have initiated the establishment of a working group whose aim is to find ways of effectively driving instruction. Trying to attract public attention to this global problem CJSC Ukrainian Insurance House and the Society for the Defense of Ukraine organized the conference. The conference jointly discuss ways to overcome accidents on the roads of Ukraine ( on materials ForUm ).