London smog standard exceeds 2017 in 5 days

london - London's air pollution standards for 2017 in the first five days of this year already exceeded in some places.

By law, the amount of toxic nitrogen dioxide can be up to eighteen times a year, more than 200 micrograms per cubic meter. That standard has been exceeded Thursday evening in central London, just south of the River Thames. It is expected that other busy streets soon follow in the British capital. The busy traffic on streets like Oxford Street, Kings Road and the beach looked even for hundreds of exceedances of the standard last year.

Pollution from nitrogen dioxide causes in London for the annual premature death of about 9,500 people. MPs pollution last year already mentioned 'a public health disaster. '