By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli 6 July 2014:
Starting tomorrow, members of the . . .[restrict]Western Mountain branch of the National Centre for Friends of the Police will embark on a campaign to increase safety on Libya’s roads, which are considered to be the most dangerous in the world.
Throughout the month of Ramadan, the group will put in place plans to educate on safety for the benefit of the community.
Volunteers will kick off the campaign by blanketing the Jebel Nafusa area with more than 3,000 posters promoting road safety.
This recent drive for increased safety on the roads is in response to continued abysmal traffic statistics put out by the Ministry of Interior.
Last year, the Ministry reported 3,606 traffic fatalities – up a staggering 32 percent on 2012 (2,728).
The 2013 figures give Libya a road traffic death rate of 60.1 fatalities per 100,000 population, the highest of any country in the world.
In fact, when compared with the UK’s very low rate of 3.6, one can see that a vehicle occupant is nearly 17 times more likely to be killed in a traffic smash in Libya than in the UK.
The campaign is being targeted at Ghariyan, Assaba, Mizdah, Zintan, Yefren, Jadu, Nalut and Ghadames. [/restrict]
