Official Launch of the United Nation's 2011 - 2020 Decade of Action on Road Safety, 11th May 2011 at Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
Lusaka 11, May , 2011 - Today Zambia joined the rest of the world in launching the United Nations’ 2011 -2020 Decade of Action on Road Safety at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lusaka. According to a WHO study, about 1.3 people are killed on the worlds’ roads annually leaving about 50 million people with injuries and maimed as a result of road traffic accidents.
road traffic accidents in the first quarter of 2010 resulting in death and serious injuries. These statistics shows that significant efforts must be made before more lives are lost
In Zambia alone and with a small vehicle population of about 320,700, Zambia experienced 9967.