Status of National Effort to

Enhance Road Safety in Ethiopia

Presented by National Road Safety Coordinating Office

9th Meeting of the UNRSC, 17-18 November 2008

 Highlights of Road Traffic
Accident In Ethiopia
In Year 2007/08
• 2,160 people died due to road accident
• 8,958 people were injured
• Fatality per 10,000 vehicles is 80
• Fatality per 100,000 population is 2.7
 Fatality Rate Per 10,000 Vehicles Trend
250
Rate per 10,000 vehicles

200
194 Baseline
178 181
172
159
150 140 136 136
126 128 125 128 126
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 Fatality Rate Trend
Baseline
160
Rate per 10,000 Vehicles

140

120
100

80
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02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08

Year
 Fatality and Vehicle Numbers Compaired to Baseline Year

250% Fatality
Percent of Change from '2002/03

Vehicle 202%
200%
183%
Fatality rate per
150% 10,000 Vehicles 150%
139% 139%
128%
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02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08

Year
 Fatality Rate per 100,000 Population Trend

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 Specific interventions
implemented in Ethiopia
 Implemented Road Safety Coordination
1. National and Regional Road Safety Coordination
2. Local Level Road Safety Coordination
Implemented Drivers Licensing and Vehicle Inspection
1. Strengthened drivers’ training, testing and licensing
2. Defensive driving training for professional drivers
3. Strengthened road safety responsibilities in transport
associations and organizations
4. Freight vehicles for passenger transport controlled
5. Strengthened vehicle inspection and spot checking
Traffic Law Enforcement
1. Awareness training in targeted traffic control
2. Targeted traffic control implemented in pilot areas
3. Accident data collection and reporting system
 Implemented Road Safety Engineering Measures
1. Road safety audit units in roads authorities
2. Studies of hazardous road locations
3. Road safety measures at hazardous locations

Strengthened Legal Provisions

1. Legal provisions relevant to traffic safety
2. Mandatory 3rd party vehicle insurance law
Implemented Road Safety Education and Publicity
1. Traffic safety education for children
2. Mass media road safety campaign
3. Community road safety campaigns

Implemented Emergency Medical System

1. Emergency medical service in Addis Ababa and regions
 Monthly Traffic Speed Violations in Eastern Shewa Cities along the
Addis Ababa Awassa Highways
90
80
Percentage of violators

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Year and Month (Eth.C.)
 Accident trend in Eastern Shewa

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Number of accidents

700
600 Property
500 damage
Light
400
injury
300 Serious
200 injury
100 Fatalty
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2001/2 2002/3 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6

Year
 Targeted traffic law enforcement result in East Shewa zone
May to September 2006 compared to same period
of 2005
Accident
severity 2005 2006 Reduction in
%
Death 84 44 -47.6

Serious injury 59 27 -54.2

Light injury 25 11 -56.0

Property 168 110 -34.5

damage
Total accidents 336 192 -42.9
 The way forward
1. Establish the transport management and road
safety training institution for sustained capacity
building at federal and regional levels
2. Strengthen traffic control to enforce speed limit
and drink driving laws
3. Expand the Accident data system improvement
3. Strengthen the good practices obtained in
previous community awareness creation effort
4. Strengthen the children road safety education.
5. Strengthen the ongoing mass media campaigns.
7. Strengthen the road safety efforts in transport
associations and organizations
8. Strengthen road safety audit and measures
9. Support Emergency Medical Service improvement
efforts of the Ministry Of Health
Thank you