ABSTRACT
The 2009 World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Global Status Report on Road Safety estimated that more than 1.2 million people die each year on the world’s roads, and that between 20 and 50 million suffer nonfatal injuries.17 It also estimated that more than 90% of the world’s fatalities resulting from road crashes occur in lowincome and middle-income countries, which have only 48% of the world’s registered motor vehicles. Of immense concern is the fact that these countries are now rapidly motorising and the death and disabling injury totals will increase dramatically over the next couple of decades unless radical change occurs.
