Lessons from Oslo on reducing road fatalities

Accident scene. Harnessing technology can greatly reduce fatalities from traffic crashes. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA

This week, I hitched a ride on a lorry to hear truckers views of the NTSA’s new digital speed governors from trucking veterans. Overloading of trucks damages roads, making them accident traps while trucks themselves alongside long distance buses and matatus are top fatal accident causers.

Oslo, Norway's capital, is reported to have achieved a remarkable feat of only one fatality in 2019 and zero child deaths from road traffic crashes. The latter in particular is important because children make up a major proportion of "pedestrians " in developed countries. What is impressive is that Oslo is still pushing towards attaining the zero deaths goal.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.