In just one second your life and the life around you can change completely, and so it is proved by the traffic accidents road accidents, which have become one of the main causes of death. According to statistics, one person is killed every 27 seconds. in the world for this reason.
María José Jiménez Cebrián, for her part, experienced firsthand the loss of a loved one due to a ] deadly: that of her son Iván. María José remembers perfectly how the phone call went that you would never expect to receive and unfortunately, did receive.
“That call I remember as one of the worst moments of my life“she confesses, while showing what the moment was like. In the recording, her desperation can be heard: “A car hit the child, I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying,” she responded to the news. It was a driver who had consumed alcohol y drugs.
The first thing she heard “point-blank” was that a vehicle had hit Ivan, who was only 15 years old, and that “he was in a very serious condition”. To the woman’s desperate question as to whether her son was still alive, she was told that he was not dead “for now”..
“The person you love most in life, you pick up a phone and they tell you that he or she has died. at that very moment or that he is going to die”, she revealed. “I can’t live without my son” were María José’s first thoughts once she was informed of what had happened and she assured that “if she had been alone” she would have “gone with him”.
She assures that since then, she has learned that “you can pick up a phone that changes your life”. Since 2011, the Guardia Civil has been ordered not to communicate this type of death by telephone. whenever possible.
1,806 people died in 2023 in accidents.
Traffic kills 1,300,000 people a year around the world. In Spain, there were a total of 1.806 people died in 2023 in accidents of this type, 3% more than in 2022. In addition, 9,265 people were seriously injured, up 9%.
If we are talking about the first nine months of this 2024, the balance sheet of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) revealed that they were 880 deceased persons up to October on Spanish roads, 39 more deaths than in 2013.