Guide for Road Safety Opportunities and Challenges : Low and Middle Income Country Profiles
Low, and middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing a major challenge in road safety. Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on the worlds’ roads, and a further 50 million are injured, with the vast majority of these (over 90 percent) occurring...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447031581489115544/Guide-for-Road-Safety-Opportunities-and-Challenges-Low-and-Middle-Income-Country-Profiles http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33363 |
| Summary: | Low, and middle-income countries (LMICs)
are facing a major challenge in road safety. Each year, 1.35
million people are killed on the worlds’ roads, and a
further 50 million are injured, with the vast majority of
these (over 90 percent) occurring in LMICs. There is an
upward trend in road crash fatalities and injuries, causing
human suffering, grief, and loss, and retarding the economic
growth of LMICs. One major barrier to improving this
situation is a lack of understanding of the current problem
due to deficient information. Many vital metrics of road
safety performance are not measured effectively in most
LMICs, including critical intermediate outcomes which guide
road safety interventions and the most fundamental outcome
measures: actual number of road crash fatalities and
injuries. This situation generates limitations in every
aspect of road safety management and delivery, including
resource allocation, advocacy, intervention selection, and
prioritization of resources. The globally accepted
best-practice approach to addressing the road safety crisis
is the Safe System approach. This consists of a system of
‘pillars’ working together to eliminate death and serious
injury. Information is required on progress against each of
these pillars in order to understand current deficiencies
and opportunities in road safety activity, to plan a
response to the crisis, to help set ambitious targets for
improvement, and to monitor progress towards these targets
and thus develop advocacy for and commitment to the
interventions which work. This report provides country
profiles with information across each Safe System pillar
from LMICs in order to directly address these issues. The
data to provide these reports were collected from multiple
sources, as documented in this report, and are provided
foreach LMIC and region where available. |
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