Attention! This new measure will have a serious impact on motorists in Budapest

Budapest has acquired 45 speed cameras, which will be installed before the end of August. The capital hopes that this will drastically reduce the number of fatal accidents.

Rampant fatal accidents in Budapest

Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest, wants to see a drastic reduction in the number of fatal accidents in the Hungarian capital. “There is another important goal: in the long term, I want to reduce the number of fatal accidents in the city to zero, like absolute zero. The example of several European cities shows that this is not an impossible goal. Yes, because of my father’s death, I have a personal commitment and sentiments about this. Every year, there are about a thousand serious traffic accidents in Budapest, and I think it is our common cause, free of politics, to reduce this number substantially – said Gergely Karácsony in 2020 on his Facebook page. The opposition politician’s father died in a traffic accident.

This has been a failure for the past 3 years, but the events of the past few weeks have spurred Hungarian politicians to action again.

In the spring of 2023, a drunk driver ploughed into a tram stop, killing a woman. Then Karácsony set a new goal: “To reduce the number of serious injuries and fatalities in road accidents in Budapest by 50 percent by 2030 and to zero by 2050.”