WILLEMSTAD - In 2018 there were 13,000 registered car accidents and eighteen road deaths on Curaçao. 75 percent of those traffic deaths are alcohol-related, according to the 2018 annual figures for damage expert Forensys.
In thirteen of the eighteen accidents in 2018, there is a suspicion that alcohol and / or drugs played a role. Ivo Out, a prosecutor from the Netherlands, was hired to reduce this number. Out wants to reduce the number of road deaths and accidents through alcohol checks. This requires, among other things, legislation and staff who are trained to work with a breath analysis device.