Situation
The incidence of road traffic crashes and resulting injuries rapidly increased during the early 2000’s – in fact the number more than doubled in just three years. This brings Kazakhstan’s road deaths to an exceptionally high number at 24.2%* of all deaths.
In recent years, the fatality rate has demonstrated a decline, with road traffic deaths slowly decreasing. Kazakhstan has adopted a range of road safely legislations, such as national speed limits, and drink-driving, motorcycle helmet and seat-belt laws. All practices are moderately to well enforced.
(*WHO 2015)
GRSP activities
Activities
Advocacy:
Advocacy workshops to build advocacy capacity for road safety.
Capacity building:
Scaling up capacity of Governments, civil society organizations and the Kazakhstan Red Crescent National Society in road safety fundamentals and advocacy for road safety through sub-regional and national workshops.
Knolwedge and practices:
Establishment of online library for public awareness campaigns.
First responders:
Development of the technical guide, in-country trainings on first response in road crashes.
Road policing:
Training of trainers (ToT) road policing training for 15-20 mid-level road police on evidence-based and outcome-focused policing.
Programmes
The TRACECA Road Safety II project brought together governments and civil society to actively promote the safety and security of road users, the public, property, and the environment within the Europe-Caucasus-Asia region’s transport corridor.
Safe to School – Safe to Home incorporates assessment of road safety conditions, the installation of appropriate and low-cost local traffic engineering improvements, extensive road safety education for children, parents and the community, together with enhanced enforcement of helmet wearing, parking restrictions and speeding.
Road user groups
Children:
With around 186 300 children under 18 years die from road traffic crashes annually, it is unacceptable that some countries still do not have legislation regarding obligatory usage and set safety standards for child restraints.
Risk factors
Members Collaboration
IFRC engagement
| Website | Carrying out RS activites | Interested in expanding RS work |
| Kazakh Red Crescent | Yes | Yes |
National laws
Lead agency: Committee Administrative Pollice of the Interior Ministry
Speed limit law
Motorcycle helmet law
Child restraint law
Drug-driving law
Drink-driving law
Seat-belt law
Mobile phones while driving law
Crash data
Annual road fatalities
3,983*
Fatalities per 100K pop. per year
24.2
Population
16,440,586
Estimated GDP loss
not available
Registered vehicles
3,926,487
Income group
Upper-middle*
Source: WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015
*World Bank
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