2023-08-04 16:17:00
2022 was an annus horribilis on the road safety front in the Brussels Region. After two covid-years of calm, accidents started to rise once more in the capital in 2022: according to Ibsa, 4,172 accidents were recorded, i.e. an increase of 17.7% compared to the year previous year, and the highest number of the decade.
During 2022, 204 serious injuries were recorded, also the highest rate in the last ten years. The number of deaths (24 regionally in 2022) remains broadly stable compared to pre-covid years. “We have a systematic approach to improving black spots, accident-prone areas: we work crossroads by crossroads with a priority list. The objective is obviously to secure all roads for all users”, comments the cabinet of the Minister Elke Van den Brandt (Groen).
By way of comparison, the number of accidents increased in all regions, but Brussels recorded the highest increase. It should be noted, however, that the outskirts of Brussels experienced an increase almost similar to the capital (+16.68% of accidents between 2021 and 2022 in the district of Hal-Vilvoorde).
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But as always, regional averages hide very diverse local realities. This summer, the Ibsa has just published the detail by municipality of the accidents of the last year. In the City of Brussels, there were 1,406 accidents last year, an increase of almost 15% compared to 2021, and the highest rate in the last ten years.
Ditto in Molenbeek, where collisions last year beat the sad record of the decade.
“One accident is one too many”
The highest increases in the number of accidents are found in Koekelberg, Uccle and Anderlecht. In the municipality of the Basilica, 70 accidents were recorded in 2022, compared to 38 the previous year. “One accident is one too many. We are vigilant. We are a small town, heavily crossed and at the crossroads of major axes”, comments the acting mayor Khalil Aouasti (PS), citing several black points. “We are asked to work on securing Place Simonis and Boulevard Léopold II. We have requested that Boulevard Léopold II be placed in zone 30, and we are awaiting a response. Avenue du Panthéon, where a new radar should arrive on the Charles Quint side, is also pointed.
In Anderlecht, the number of accidents, as in other entities, has reached the highest level of the decade: 438 collisions in 2022. Nadia Kammachi (Ecolo), acting alderman for Mobility, denounces, among other things, the impact mobile phone while driving, the number of repeat offenders involved in accidents and alcohol consumption. “There is no single solution. We must work in parallel on control, prevention and public development”, indicates the Anderlechtoise, while reopening the Good Move file, a plan finally repealed in Cureghem following a few months, but which, according to the ecologist, is justified. fully: “A lot of people criticized Good Move. But the primary goal is to reduce excessive speed, because certain sections are used to cross the city as quickly as possible. We must enforce the 30 km / h, which are necessary.
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Only two municipalities have not seen their number of accidents increase: Berchem-Sainte-Agathe and Forest. Schaerbeek, despite a slight increase, recorded lower figures than the years before the pandemic: 296 accidents in 2022, compared to, for example, 359 in 2018 and 342 in 2012.
Let us also recall the limits of the division of the communes, which are not all served in the same way by the main axes. The City of Brussels, for example, has a large part of the Petite Ceinture, Avenue Louise and Avenue Van Praet. Unlike, for example, entities such as Jette or Watermael-Boitsfort, which are little crossed by major transit routes.
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