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Citation

Lagarde E. PLoS Med. 2007; 4(6): e170.

Affiliation

INSERM, U593, Equipe Avenir Santé et Insécurité Routière, Bordeaux, France (emmanuel.lagarde@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Public Library of Science)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.0040170

PMID

17593893

PMCID

PMC1896192

Abstract

Research into road safety in developing countries is scarce, especially in Africa. This is inconsistent with the size of the problem: it has been predicted that by 2020, road traffic injuries will rank as high as third among causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost. While South-East Asia has the highest proportion of global road fatalities (one-third of the 1.4 million occurring each year in the world), the road traffic injury mortality rate is highest in Africa (28.3 per 100,000 population when corrected for under-reporting, compared with 11.0 in Europe. I selected eleven African countries with recent available data on road mortality and number of vehicles in use. When comparing death per 10,000 vehicles, the contrast appears even more stark, with 1.7 deaths per 10,000 vehicles in high-income countries across the world and more than 50 per 10,000 in low-income African countries.

Article: 2400 words plus tables and figures. 69 refs



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