Pedestrians still top death count
ROAD DEATH CLOCK
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2011
13 DEATHS
Pedestrians continue to lead traffic fatalities, accounting for seven of the 13 traffic deaths since the start of the year.
However, director the transport ministry Road Safety Unit (RSU) Kenute Hare noted that in majority of the cases the pedestrian was not at fault.
“In six of seven deaths, the pedestrians were not on the roadway, the vehicle went at them,” Hare commented yesterday.
Pedestrians last year topped the toll in traffic fatalities accounting for 116 of the reported 310 deaths.
The high pedestrian death count has spurred the National Road Safety Council to embark on a special sensitisation programme.
With three weeks gone in 2011, the13 Jamaicans lost their lives in seven fatal traffic crashes compared to14 deaths from 14 crashes over the same period last year.
