How success is born...artificially

There is a consensus that by 2012 all countries in EU should decrease the number of fatal car accidents on the roads by 50%.

Slovak Republic was one of the lasts to implement new regulations in order to achieve this. We decreased the city speed limit to 50kmh as last but one country in EU, the fines went up significantly, etc.

The new law is valid as of February 1st and couple of days ago the police announced first month results: 60% decrease in accidents y-o-y! Some people say: yes, that is it, finally law and order on the streets! Minority says: ok, ok, that is the initial fear, it will turn a little worser after some time. But almost no one realize (and you can hardly find this in media), that this significant decrease is mostly due to change in statistics: accidents under 3000 euro are not considered as accident anymore and you are not obliged to call the police. The two sides have to arrange it between each other and go with report of accident to the insurance company directly.

So this is it: 60% percent down, significant success! Better don´t ask, how we got there...btw do you know that there are elections in 2 years?