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Dangerous Road And Driving Claims More Lives In World
[edit]The rate of accident in the world is now increasing in numbers especially in low and middle income countries,this happen because of insufficient of resource to maintain the road infrastructure or reckless driving but in some cases, the road is too risky.according to ( Grace Murano 2009)10 of the World's Most Dangerous The North Yungas Road, also known as The Death Road, is a 61 to 69 km road leading from La Paz to Coroico (Bolivia's capital, to the Amazon region) in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger: in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the "world's most dangerous road. " One estimate is that 200-300 travelers were killed yearly along the road. The road includes crosses marking many of the spots where such vehicles have fallen. [1].this issue also reflect to Namibian road because this year Namibian road have Claim More Lives.
Crass and Injuries
[edit]Many people died this year and increasing Pedestrian-related crashes are of concern to the MVA, whose figures show that 35 of the Khomas crashes involved pedestrians. In total 66 pedestrians were involved in crashes around the country last month, nine of whom died as a result. In total 33 people died at the scene of accidents last month, two died on the way to hospital and 11 died in hospital. Fridays have been shown to be the most dangerous days to travel on Namibian roads. For the month on average 42 crashes happened on Fridays with 38 on Thursdays, 37 on Wednesday and 35 on Tuesdays. Saturdays, Sundays and particularly Mondays seem to be the safer choices with only 30 accidents recorded on Mondays in May. Also the statistics show that traveling between the hours of 18h00 and 20h00 is the most dangerous with 51 accidents happening at those times in May. Only four accidents happened between 02h00 and 04h00 which was the lowest recorded. MVA quotes police reports which show that most head-on collisions in May took place on hilly roads and due to overtaking at the wrong places.Speeding around curves and general speeding caused mostroll-over type crashes. Pedestrian crashes were caused by complacency, human error and lack of Road Safety Awareness as well as speeding, dangerous overtaking and driving under the influence of alcohol. Driver distractions, like using cellphone are also to blame, as are bad driving habits, road maintenance and defective road designs. Finally pedestrians not wearing bright clothing, not crossing at designated crossings and alcohol abuse are cited as major contributory factors to the accident rate .so what the government must do, must construct a huge speed limit every 30 kilometer in a high way especially between Okahandja and Otjiwarongo and cameras all over that will reflect and transfer the speed to monitor that should installed in a highway to warn the driver to slow down his speed. Strict control must be always on all occasions not only in festive seasons. Widening the road and expanding the exist road will help to reduce accident in Namibia but only when the young adults are complying with the road traffic regulation’s, I have notice that between 18 -30 years of age young adults are the more involve in accidents or are causing accident because of the speed that they like of racing while the road is used by many vehicles and its very risky. Young adult must evade that mentality of trying to reach the maximum speed of a vehicle. [2].