Situation
Like many low-middle-income countries, Namibia has an unacceptably large number of road traffic deaths, with approximately more than 23 people per every 100,000 people killed in road crashes.*
Although Namibia has extensive road safety legislation, enforcement is extremely low especially in the drink-driving law and child restraints usage law. The lead agency has not set an ambitious target in fatality reduction – just 5% until 2020*. Nevertheless, GRSP is contributing to the road safety situation through targeted road safety interventions with the commercial vehicle sector in Namibia. This will reflect on a regional level because it is a country on a major transport route within the Trans African Highway Network.
(*WHO 2015)
GRSP activities
Activities
Advocacy:
Supporting advocacy for the Traffic Amendment Act to strengthen road safety around schools.
Grantees:
Six grants have been awarded to civil society organizations to advocate for the passage and implementation of evidence-based road safety policies.
Programmes
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.
Pedestrians:
With more than 270 000 pedestrians killed on roads each year, they account to almost a quarter of all road traffic casualties annually. Certain roads, especially in low and middle income countries, completely fail to separate road users from the rest of the road users, which put them in imminent danger.
Risk factors
Members Collaboration
IFRC engagement
| Website | Carrying out RS activites | Interested in expanding RS work |
| Namibia Red Cross | Yes | Yes |
National laws
Lead agency: National Road Safety Council
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
551
Fatalities per 100K pop. per year
23.9
Population
2,303,315
Estimated GDP loss
not available
Registered vehicles
280,583
Income group
Upper-middle*
Source: WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015
*World Bank
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