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Khaleej Times has launched a campaign to drive home this point. Part 1 of the 14-part series provides an overview of road safety issues in the UAE and how that one moment of distraction could prove fatal.
Globally, a person dies every 24 seconds from a traffic-related incident. That means almost 1.4 million people die and tens of millions more are injured or disabled every year, according to a report released last month by the World Health Organisation.
In the UAE, authorities have recorded 88 road fatalities just in Dubai from January to July 2018; including 28 deaths caused by sudden swerving. In 2017, 525 people died due to various types of accidents (including 230 people who died due to speeding). The total number of fatalities has sharply declined when compared to incidents in 2016, which recorded 706 deaths. There are no final statistics yet for 2018 but numerous incidents have been recorded across the country.
The accidents are always harrowing and headlines are definitely startling. Just last week, one Emirati died and four others were injured when their vehicle caught fire after swerving and smashing into a concrete barrier on the side of the road at a high speed.
Authorities, road safety experts, civil society and Khaleej Times are making all the efforts to achieve the goal of making the UAE one of the safest countries in the world.
The Dubai Police are one year away from its target of reducing the number of road fatalities to zero per 100,000 residents by 2020 while the target for the entire country is to have only three deaths per 100,000 residents by 2021. Holistic, repeated and strongly communicated campaigns on road safety are needed to achieve these goals.
Do you feel safe when driving on UAE roads?Thomas Edelmann, founder and managing director of RoadSafetyUAE, said: "In order to improve road safety in the UAE, we need to focus on the big strategic issues."
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) January 14, 2019
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