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On November 27, the Fact Investigation Platform sent an inquiry to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, asking to provide the number of people run over by cars in the city of Yerevan from 2018 to October 2023 inclusive.
The Ministry provided the statistics within the period specified by law. According to the data, 695 pedestrians were run over by cars in 2018. No number was provided on fatal accidents and accidents that happened on pedestrian crossings.
According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2019, 775 collisions were registered – 61 of them fatal, and 6 on the pedestrian crossing. In 2020, 490 cases were registered, 33 of which resulted in death, and 6 happened on the pedestrian crossing. In 2021, 684 collisions were registered, of which 44 were fatal and 2 happened on the pedestrian crossing.
According to the data provided by the Ministry, in 2022, 626 collision cases were registered, 36 of these cases resulted in death. However, in the response to the inquiry, the Ministry presented the number of collisions on the pedestrian crossing as 0 in 2022.
However, at least one accident on the pedestrian crossing was known to the public last year. On the evening of April 26, 2022, the first car of the convoy accompanying Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan ran over a 28-year-old pregnant woman at the intersection of Leo-Paronyan streets.
The published video shows that the woman was hit on the pedestrian crossing.
In fact, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia did not include the accident on the pedestrian crossing in the statistics of 2022, claiming that there were no accidents involving such circumstances that year.
Earlier, FIP.am also presented the gap between the statistics presented by the Police and the real picture with regard to the fight against crime. The number of detected crimes is several times less than the police statistics show.
Nane Manasyan
