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I think this is the way to tackle the problem in an organized and coordinated manner. To do this we need a political solution. The state should give a major priority to the fact that so many young people die almost as if during genocide. I say this because 120,000 Greeks lost their lives, 300,000 have become disabled and 2 million were injured in road accidents within 50 years. 85% of these people are under the age of 35 years. This means that we are losing people in the most productive and reproductive age. They had no children, they will have no grandchildren and great-grandchildren and this is genocide. A man of 25 who dies in an accident would not have children, so his Genealogy tree breaks at this very moment.

Each year, we lose 25-30 thousand people because of the accidents, the inaccurate driving on the roads, the decrease in tourist flow because of the warnings that many car accidents happen in Greecet. They all cost around 15 billion euro annually. This is three times the state deficit. If the state could have realized how many young people who will not have an offspring go forever and that if we could avoid that amoun,t we could get out of the supervision of the International Monetary Fund then it could have decided to solve the problem.

Where do most accidents happen in Greece?

Only 3% of the accidents happen on highways. Most of them occur in the cities and the neighbourhoods at speeds below 40 km/h. 88% of the victims lost their lives at a distance of 15 kilometers from home.

The speed ​​of 50 km/h may not be high, but the rules stipulate that 10 m are needed to stop and if a child jumps in front of you, you will run over the child. Therefore, you should move at no more than 30 km/h. At this speed, 5 m are needed to stop, but at 60 km/h, you need 20 m to stop. Therefore, when passing along a school we should not drive at more than 10 km / h because the child playing in the yard is our child. That is why I said, it is a matter of conscience.

People often expect me to tell them a trick to avoid a crash, as if the car is a kangaroo. Instead, I give them an advice, which I think is the most important: I want everyone who leaves his or her house in the morning to go to work not to shut the door behind him/her, to walk through the house mentally for a few seconds and think about how many hugs he/she will get in the afternoon. Is there a bigger incentive than that to come back? It is not a question of driving ability, but of logic and social conscience.

Do you hope that this change could occur?

No, I do not see light at the tunnel, because in these times, people ignore the important things and pay attention to not so important such as our portfolios.

Our children are important and one of the major mistakes we make is connected exactly with them. When a 18-year-old child obtains a driving license, whether his or her father gave a bribe for it, this child is a complicit in the crash that he or she will cause tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, because they give him or her the old car, "to learn to crash." The speed at which a child can end up in a wheelchair is 5 km / h. An old car has no options for active and passive safety and the parents would lose their child for just 4 euro per day. This is the price of a new car in interest-free installments, which the companies offer. Are we not the criminals then?

I have the right to talk about these things because I made the same mistakes. Therefore, I am doing my best to shout in all directions. I feel obligated as a man and in view of my experience as a rally driver. I have three children who are professional drivers too and the fastest ones in Greece. I am afraid when driving on the roads. This should be an example for the foolish, ordinary citizens who say they are fearless, therefore they are invincible, and therefore they are stupid.