United States Department of Transportation
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Abstract:A number of studies of road crashes worldwide (Jacobs et al, 2000) carried out by TRL in recent years have shown that the road safety situation throughout the African continent is one of the worst in the world. With approximately only 4 per cent of the world's motor vehicles, its road fatality share is 2 1/2 times greater (10%). In several African countries, a motor vehicle is over a hundred times more likely to be involved in a fatal road crash than in the UK or USA. This is the first review of road safety in Sub Saharan Africa and the objective was to analyses existing data and information on the road safety situation in order to identify the data gaps and priority needs. Based on the poor response received from an earlier survey distributed by the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), a shorter survey (restricted to crash data only) was sent to each of the 42 countries. Unfortunately, this too had a low response with less than 20 per cent providing the data requested. Accordingly, the analysis was based on published sources such as the IRF statistics, data identified in the literature review and project reports. Between 68 and 82 thousand lives are estimated to be lost in road crashes in Sub Saharan Africa in 2000. This estimate has factored in the problem of under-reporting in official police statistics, the traditional source for road casualty data. While the figures are greater than those being reported by the police, they are lower than previous WHO projections.
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