Siniestros viales en la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México.

Dimensión urbana de una pandemia ignorada

Abstract

Road accidents are one of the pandemics with the highest mortality in the 21st century. In 2018, 1.35 million people in the world lost their lives due to trauma from road accidents, in the Latin America and the Caribbean region there were 155,000 deaths and 16,725 in Mexico due to this fact. In the region and in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico Valley, road accidents are among the ten causes of death in the general population, together with chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular risk; beating lethality to HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis or diarrheal diseases. The objective of this article is to show the Metropolitan Area of Mexico Valley, as a key point where the effects of road accidents are developed prominently; due to its high population density, high level of mobility, shared means of transport and limited road infrastructure. Far from showing the data as facts, this article seeks to recognize road accidents as an ignored pandemic, to demonstrate their magnitude and impact in Mexico and the region, in such a way, to seek measures to reduce deaths in the general population and particularly in vulnerable groups: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.