Caisson. A 17-year-old and two teenage girls rolled over in a ditch. The police are investigating who was driving. None of them had a driving license

The services received a report on Saturday around 10 p.m. The accident occurred in the town of Skrzyniec in the Bełżyce commune in the Lublin poviat.

“Preliminary findings indicate that the driver of the Audi vehicle, for unknown reasons, drove into a ditch on a straight section of the road and then caused the vehicle to roll over,” writes Małgorzata Skowrońska, a junior officer from the Provincial Police Headquarters in Lublin, in a statement.

There were three teenagers in the vehicle: a 17-year-old and two teenagers, aged 15 and 16.

All those with very serious injuries were transported to hospital.

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“We are currently investigating who was driving the vehicle and why the driver lost control of the vehicle. None of the participants had a driving license,” says the policewoman.

Blood was taken from all teenagers for alcohol and drug tests.

Every year there are over 20,000 accidents on Polish roads road accidents. In 2023, according to unofficial data, 1,669 people died and 22,944 were injured. A year earlier, these were 1,896 and 24,743 people, respectively.

In 9 out of 10 accidents, the drivers were at fault. Young drivers aged 18-24 had the highest rate of accidents per 10,000 inhabitants. The cause of nearly 35 percent of the accidents they caused was the failure to adjust speed to traffic conditions.

After changing the regulations on pedestrian priority at crossings, withdrawing driving licenses for gross speed violations and increasing fines, the statistics of the last few years show that safety on Polish roads has improved. In 2019, there were 2,909 fatalities, almost 1,300 more than in 2023.