Appendix A: Estimating Road Fatalities in Africa

Previous global or regional reviews of road deaths undertaken by TRL, the World Bank and others have acknowledged the problems associated with data reliability and under...

Summary

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,...

Table 5.5 - Socio-economic characteristics of pedestrians

(sample size shown in brackets)

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Chapter 3 - The Current Situation

Previous global or regional reviews of road deaths undertaken by TRL, the World Bank and others have acknowledged the problems associated with data reliability and under reporting. That said, traditional reliance has...

Figure 3.10 - East Africa Motorisation Levels

Table 6.1 - Estimated cost of crashes 2000

(US$ billion)

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Figure 3.1 - Global distribution of road deaths

Table 5.4 - Age distribution of road fatalities

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Figure 4.1 - East Africa Road Fatalities

Figure 3.9 - West Africa Fatality Risks