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Road accident cases straining KNH
Sharp rise in traffic road accidents in the month of April, is taking a heavy a toll on Kenyatta National Hospital, the hospital's Chief Executive Officer Mr Richard Lesiyampe has disclosed Read more.......>
No one else needs die on our roads
Every day, a life is lost through a road accident. On certain days, tens of lives are lost, mostly through reckless driving by drivers, some of them drunk or incompetent. Read more....>
We Support The Decade of Action For Road Safety 2011-2020
BELIEVE. ACT
Why we must act now.
Most of us know someone who has been affected by a road crash, either by being injured themselves, or through suffering a bereavement or injury to a family member or friend. Read more.....>
Modern highways are not enough; we also need to train drivers afresh
The Thika superhighway and the new by-passes in Nairobi will make traffic jams worse and increase road deaths. Read more....>
Target Zero: a vision for road safety
Every death and serious injury on the road is horrific and unacceptable, tearing apart families and destroying lives. These terrible tragedies are of epidemic proportions, every week. The only humane target for numbers of road deaths and injuries is zero. Read more....>
The 6 Most Common Causes of Vehicle Crashes
After the world's first automobile-related fatality, which occurred in London in 1896, the coroner said: "This must never happen again." Little did he know that from then on, some 25 million people would have died in vehicle-related accidents, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Read More.......>
Careless drivers deserve the heaviest of penalties
Causing death by dangerous driving is the equivalent of manslaughter, and it should be possible for the courts to impose the same sentence, up to and including life imprisonment. Read More.....>
Why do we still take child safety so lightly?
Almost all our road safety efforts, almost always, fail. We have tried dozens of different techniques to change public attitudes. They haven’t worked.Yet.
One we have not tried is embarrassment. So here, with my apologies in advance, is a pilot test of its efficacy.Read More....>
Food for thought:
Do you feel at risk while driving?
Do you think you pose a risk to other road users?
It is better to lose a minute in life, than to lose a life in a minute
Road Safety News
The festive season is upon us once more, and while it is the season to be jolly, it is also the time of year to be wary of drink drivers on our roads.
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