Reducing the

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Reducing the loss from road accidents
John Mumford Director
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The world road safety problem

• 1.2 million killed every year
• 50 million seriously injured
• 3 GDP lost each year

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Medical basics the human body cannot survive
uncushioned impact above 40 kph
- Its about managing energy
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The safe system
Road
Engineering Enforcement Education
Vehicle
User
A shared responsibility
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Approaches work as a system
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Analysing the road risk
Black spot analysis can tackle only a few of
the very worst roads and only works after
people have died
iRAP can economically analyse all the worse
roads and do it before people die
Fatalities
Roads
Typically 50 of fatalities occur on 10 of roads
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Crashes that kill

• Vehicle occupants
• Head-on crashes overtaking
• Side impacts at Junctions
• Run-off hitting roadside objects

• Vulnerables
• Along the road
• Crossing

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iRAP Process
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Inspecting Roads

• 30 attributes important to safety every 100m
• Independent of crash data

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Star Rating Cars, buses, trucks
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Star Rating - Pedestrians
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Predicted Casualty Savings
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Targeted Road Safety Plan
Cost ca 1000 per KSI saved
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Activity to date in Africa

• Pilot project in South Africa
• Single route survey in Nigeria
• Major Kenya program in progress
• Major Uganda program starting
• Discussions with Tanzania
• Approaches from many others

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Lessons from Africa iRAP

• Three quarters of fatalities are pedestrians, PSV
  passengers, and cyclists
• On inter-urban roads shoulders, barriers and
  delineation are the most cost effective measures
• In urban areas, footpaths and pedestrian
  crossings have the greatest impact on fatalities
• 40 of fatality savings came from maintenance
  major schemes accounted for only 16 of savings

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Africa iRAP Vision

• Target 100,00km killer roads
• Cost (including countermeasures)
• 0.02 of Africa GPD pa
• 0.5 - 1 per head of population pa
• 2,000 per KSI saved
• Benefit
• Increase Africa GDP by 0.5pa
• Save 25,000 fatalities pa
• Save 250,000 serious injuries pa

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All we need is the money