No one else needs die on our roads

By Njoki Karuoya

Every day, a life is lost through a road accident. On certain days, tens of lives are lost, mostly through reckless driving by drivers, some of them drunk or incompetent.
According to international statistics, only ten countries are responsible for 48 per cent of the world’s traffic-related deaths. Kenya is one of these ten miserable countries. We should all be ashamed to be lumped together with nations like Brazil, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam.
The situation is so bad that all these countries were singled out last year at a United Nations General Assembly (Resolution 64/255) for activities meant to reduce road deaths during the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011–2020), also referred to as Road Safety in 10 Countries Project (RS-10).