Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Global status report on road safety 2015
Community Engagement
Disability and Rehabilitation
Description
More than 1.2 million people die each year on the world��s roads, making road traffic injuries a leading cause of death globally. Most of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries where rapid economic growth has been accompanied by increased motorization and road traffic injuries. As well as being a public health problem, road traffic injuries are a development issue: low- and middleincome countries lose approximately 3% of GDP as a result of road traffic crashes.