![]() ![]() Rather, it seems a case of rapid increases in wealth and car ownership without a corresponding increase in education. Drivers in Bolivia demonstrate an outrageous disregard for traffic lights and pedestrians, and I have never seen anybody leave their car behind, even after an evening of steady drinking. Car ownership is more than 10 times higher in the United States, but there traffic injuries only account for 3% of the disease burden.įigure 3: Motor vehicles per 1000 people, 2014 Car ownership is also still very low at only 68 cars per 1000 persons (see Figure 3 below). The density of roads in Bolivia is only about 8 km per 100 km 2 of territory, which is less than half the average density in Latin America and less than a third of the world average of 28 km/100 km 2 (2). The high burden of traffic injuries in Bolivia is clearly not due to an abundance of roads and cars. Note: The disease burden is measured in Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Three quarters of those harmed by traffic accidents are pedestrians (1).įigure 2: Bolivia’s Disease Burden, 2013 Source: Author’s elaboration based on data from. However, those causes have recently been overtaken by Road Injuries, which now account for 7% of the total disease burden for Bolivian men. The principal causes of loss of DALYs in Bolivia used to be Lower Respiratory Infections (LRI) and Diarrhea, as they killed young children and thus caused massive losses in Life Years. Figure 2 shows the structure of the disease burden for men of all ages in Bolivia in 2013 in terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost due to different causes. To that we should add the number of traffic fatalities which increased from 681 deaths in 2000 to 1,848 deaths in the year 2013. Three of every four injuries in 2013 took place in the departments of La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba.įigure 1: Non-fatal traffic injuries in Bolivia, 2000-2013, by Department Source: Author’s elaboration based on data from INE ( ).īy now, the main cause of death and disability among Bolivian men is Road Injuries. Figure 1 shows the number of non-fatal traffic injuries rising from 5,356 in 2000 to 17,204 in 2013. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.According to official statistics from the National Statistical Institute, the number of people injured in traffic accidents in Bolivia has more than tripled between 20 (the latest year for which data is available). Montecinos also attributed the victims’ deaths to “multiple trauma.” The footage, obtained by the Sun, also showed one young woman pushing another near the railing moments before it collapsed.īolivian police general commander Jhonny Aguilera Montecinos said Wednesday the woman seen in the struggle will be questioned as part of the investigation, local outlets reported. The tragedy happened in the university’s financial sciences building, as students attempted to enter a lecture hall for an assembly. Wild video of Tuesday’s incident showed a mass of students from the Public University of El Alto packed onto the balcony before the railing gave way. Seven college students died and four were injured during a tragic incident in Bolivia when a railing collapsed, sending them falling from a fourth-floor balcony. Insects, worms and urine: How a man survived a month in the Amazon jungleĬonvict in sheep’s clothing: Inmate tries to escape prison dressed as farm animalīolivia’s jailing opposition leaders on absurd ‘terrorism’ charges Bolivia severs ties with Israel, others recall envoys over Gaza
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