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Road Safety Information & Research from Around the World

A series of "country reports" may be viewed on a Harvard University website:

www.hsph.harvard.edu/traffic/papers.html 

All Developing Nations

"Most high-income countries have had over half a century to learn to cope with the problems of ever-increasing motorisation... Many developing countries today have a serious road accident problem. Fatality rates are high in comparison with those in developed countries..." Read: 'Traffic Safety Issues for the Next Millennium' by C J Baguley and G D Jacobs, of the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)

African Continent

A report was prepared in 2000, by the TRL, for the US Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, entitled: African Road Safety Review.

The 3rd African Road Safety Congress (1997)

The Norwegian Institute of Transport Economics (TØI) have published: 'Implementation of Road Accident Countermeasures -- Problems and Possibilities -- Examples from Africa and Scandinavia' (Includes some crash statistics and a little BAC data)

Asia

As part of the dissemination process, a paper on road safety in Central Asia was presented at the IRF/ESCAP Second Silk Road Conference (Tashkent, Sept. 1999).

'Road Safety Trends in the Asian Pacific Region ' is a report on the website of the Association of Road Users of Pakistan (ARUP) 

Ghana

ONE DAY PARLIAMENTARIAN SEMINAR ON ROAD WAY SAFETY CENTRE FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES (CSPS), UNIVERSITY OF GHANA IN COLLABORATION WITH ACTIONAID, GHANA. AT THE MIKLIN HOTEL, FEBRUARY 10, 2003

Guyana

Much can be learned about driving in Guyana and about crash statistics there, by visiting the Land Of Six Peoples website and doing a site search for "road safety".

Myanmar

High accident death toll prompts first exhibition on safe road use