The World Bank report says unsafe road traffic conditions have tremendous adverse implications for many countries economic and social well-being, Itar-Tass reports.
Quoting Abdo Yazbeck, the World Bank’s Health Sector Manager for the Europe and Asia, Itar-Tass writes:
- Road traffic injuries are already among the top ten causes of death and disability.
– Human impact of traffic crashes is enormous. …and… the problem is also bringing a national dimension to it, contributing to demographic crises and imposing additional burdens on county economies which lose billions of dollars every year as a result of traffic injuries and fatalities, Yazbeck said to Itar-Tass.
According to the website Car-Accidents some 35,000 people are killed and 215,000 are injured in 184,000 traffic accidents in Russia annually.
The road death rate is about 24.6 deaths per 100,000 population.
A combination of weak road safety management capacity, deteriorated roads, unsafe vehicles, poor driver behavior, and patchy enforcement of road safety laws, alongside exponential growth in the number of vehicles, are the key factors contributing to road traffic injuries and fatalities multiplying at a rapid pace, the World Bank report said.
