Current Affairs Fifteen die on Czech roads over holiday weekend

15-04-2009 16:27 | Jan Velinger

This past holiday weekend proved one of the most deadly in recent memory on Czech roads. Police had warned drivers in advance to take extra caution with the coming of warm spring weather and not to take unnecessary risks. It wasn’t enough: fifteen people were killed while on the road, five of them motorcyclists. Regarding the latter, statistics released by the non-profit European Transport Safety Council, suggest that when it comes to motorcycle fatalities, the Czechs rank among the worst in Europe.

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