Moldovan PM comments on traffic accident in Buiucani district of Chisinau

Chisinau, 2 October /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Maia Sandu, in the beginning of a today’s cabinet meeting, made a commentary on the accident which occurred on the Alba Iulia Street from the Moldovan capital’s Buiucani district on 30 September. Twenty five people were injured, one person died and another one was hospitalized in a serious state in the wake of the accident.    

According to the government’s communication and protocol department, Maia Sandu instructed the notification of representatives of the Interior Ministry (MAI) and Justice Ministry, in order to clear up the circumstances of the occurring of the accident and the guilty persons, who endanger other people’s lives and avoid punishment and withdrawal of driver’s licence, taking advantage of the corruption in the justice system, should be called to account.     

„In the accident, we saw how much the state’s weak and irresponsible institutions cost us. We have once again seen how corruption kills and leave people with health problems for many years ahead. I wonder how it is possible for a person with more than five criminal files and 40 contravention ones to be allowed to drive a vehicle. The case must be investigated, so that we know who are the people involved, who are those who took decisions to this end. We should have tough sanctions for such people, who committed more infringements; the people must be deprived of the right to drive for more years – sanction which is to be imposed automatically, simultaneously with the infringement,” Maia Sandu said.   

At the same time, the PM reiterated the importance to implement the reforms in justice, in order to fight the corruption in the system. “We need to monitor the situation and take attitude. The people with luxurious cars, who think that they solve their problems by phone, should know that we will fight with this phenomenon and this depends on justice,” Prime Minister Maia Sandu stressed.   

In the context, Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister Ala Nemerenco said that the people who had suffered in the wake of the accident were under physicians’ supervision and the state would fully cover the spending for their treatment.