The last few days brought fresh road safety figures from Kenya, and they were bad news. Fatalities rose even as the global total fell by more than a fifth, with pedestrians accounting for the largest share of the dead.
At the United Nations’ High-Level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety in New York on July 20, Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) Director-General, Nashon Kondiwa, described the toll, 4,000 to 5,000 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year, as one of the country’s biggest public health and development problems.
