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The holiday period seeds in the heads of the office managers a deceptive feeling of easiness, comfort and leisure. Probably this excessive slackness leads to accidents with the tourists on holiday. Besides, the unknown surroundings and change of scenery are also factors that influence the high risk of touristic trauma and result to spoiled holiday impressions. The availability of car-rental via Internet, multiple discounters that offer cars for miserable amounts of money - motivate more and more tourists for car and bus trips across Europe.

Turkey is still one of the most popular directions of the experienced tourists. The plenty of auto-assembly plants in Turkey supplies the local car-rental companies with small cylinder capacity vehicles, but the technical level or service is pretty poor and the cars are usually in a very bad condition. The chance to rent a defective car with for example brakes malfunction is really high, and this can be not only a rented car, but also a taxi. Besides, gas costs here 3 dollars per liter, what actually demotivates people from the idea to rent a car. The most horrible means of transport in Turkey is a cab. Along with the poor vehicles condition, the main reason for this is not only the horrible driving manner of the drivers, but the fact that they are often really incapable of normal driving. They consciously ignore the traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. This leads to multiple accidents, including touristic buses at mountain roads. 3 thousands people perish on the Turkish roads every year and the greatest part of the accidents happens in summer. The Turkish roads are the most dangerous in Europe.

After the Turkish roads follow the Greek ones. The greatest accident rate in the European Union is registered exactly in Greece. Out of one million of citizens, 180 people die on the roads every year. Here, along with the frivolous driving manner of the most of the drivers, you will see lots of two-wheeled transport that is used by the elderly public and 14-years old children (a motor scooter is allowed starting from this age). About 60% of all the accidents are involving a bicycle or a scooter. The tourists are also frequent participants of the accidents, because they have usually lack of orientation and often look aside of the road while driving and do not notice the two-wheeled transport that runs between the lanes. The Cyprus drivers are also really frivolous. These islanders have a habit to put out parts of their bodies out of the vehicle because of the heat. Besides they think it normal to talk on the road and do not hesitate to stop their car if they see a friend on the opposite lane - and they stop their cars in the middle of the road and begin talking for a long time. The European Union pressure has led to the relief and the local authorities have issued several rules that prohibit the drivers putting out parts of their bodies during driving.

The road accidents situation in Portugal is not really better and lots of two-wheeled transport spoils the happiness of the drivers and tourists. High road accidents fatality rate is registered among the teenagers that neglect the traffic rules and do not use the protective equipment. 326 fatalities per each million of Portugal citizens younger than 15 per year.

Spain is a little bit more civilized country in this subject field, but the amount of road accidents also grows here during the summer months. The Spaniards are complaining about the French tourists that come to their neighbors with their cars to eat hamon, bathe in the sea and to tank with cheap fuel (a liter of gas is 50 eurocents more expensive in France - and costs about 2 euro). But for all that, the Frenchmen are really impolite drivers and the amount of accidents gets higher along with the displeasure of the locals from the guests. The Russians are also fans of Spanish highways in rented cars and are also frequent participants of accidents, because the permissiveness of the paid highways makes them really mad.

If the accident rate in Spain is mostly caused by the temperament and reckless driving, the Belgian situation is negatively scored by the experts because of the bad roads without lane separation and markup. Though, the accident rate is quite low here in comparison with other rating leaders, but the tourists should be also very careful while driving.

The EU safety specialists have introduced a program for the increased road safety that should cut down twice the accident road fatalities in Europe till 2010.
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