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Each year, the number of deaths and disabilities due to road accidents escalates. Strangely, this is most marked in Africa, where ownership of motor vehicles is among the lowest in the world. Karl Peltzer investigates. IT has been projected that by 2020 road traffic deaths will have risen 60% worldwide and 80% in Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts that road traffic injuries will rank third among the causes of disability adjusted life years lost. The road traffic injury death rate is highest in Africa - 28.3 per 100 000 population compared with Europe's figure of 11.0.
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