The number of car accidents in Italy is decreasing, but there seems to be more and more hit-and-run drivers.
When the accident is caused by a hit-and-run driver, rage adds to the sorrow of the relatives and friends of the victim, and these feelings are fueled by the fact that it is not always possible to find out who has caused the accident and bring him/her to justice. In spite of the efforts of the police and of other people in charge of this, it is not always possible to identify the person that caused the accident. In the first six months of 2011 it was possible to do so in 66,3% of the cases, a lower percentage than last year, when the guilty driver was identified in 78,3% of the cases.
One of the main reasons why hit-and-run drivers run away after causing an accident is that they have taken alcohol or drugs before. Among the hit-and-run drivers that have been identified, indeed, 20,4% had positive alcohol tests, and some of these people had also taken drugs (8% of the people that had a positive alcohol tests also tested positive for drugs). However, these data are approximate, and most probably they do not mirror reality: the situation might be much worse than that: many hit-and-run drivers, indeed, are taken, or give themselves up, after a certain time span, when the effects of drugs and alcohol are not traceable anymore.
In order to limit the number of accidents and victims caused by hit-and-run drivers, in September the Italian Parliament will discuss the introduction of the crime of road murder in the Highway Code. This crime would be punished with a sentence of 8 to 18 years, the definitive license withdrawal – in some cases – and the arrest in flagrante delicto.
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