Deadly Week on Moroccan Roads: 7 Killed, 763 Injured in 590 Urban Accidents

According to the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) which published these figures on Tuesday, these accidents are mainly due to "non-compliance with priority, driver inattention, lane changes without using signals, speeding, pedestrian inattention", in short, to repeated violations of the highway code.

As for control and repression operations, the police services recorded during the same period "9,268 tickets and drew up 4,839 reports that were submitted to the public prosecutor’s office, while 4,429 transaction fines were collected".

In total, 867,300 dirhams were collected according to the DGSN, which stressed the impounding of 3,099 vehicles, the seizure of 1,649 documents and the withdrawal from circulation of 91 vehicles.