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The 2017 Annual Crime and Road Safety Report, has revealed that pedestrians were the biggest victims of road accidents. At least 1,319 out of the 3,500 people killed in road accidents last year were pedestrians while 2,135 of the 10,420 injured persons were pedestrians. Drunkards, minors and school going children being the most affected.
In second position are boda boda riders followed passengers in other vehicles. Charles Ssebambulidde, the Police Traffic and Road Safety Spokesperson, says the situation has been repeating itself for so many years
The Director Traffic and Road Safety, Stephen Kasiima says they are in consultations with different stakeholders like Uganda National Roads Authority and Kampala Capital City Authority to find a way to separate walkways from the roads and to construct Pedestrian fly overs.
The Director Traffic and Road Safety, Stephen Kasiima says they are in consultations with different stakeholders like Uganda National Roads Authority and Kampala Capital City Authority to find a way to separate walkways from the roads and to construct Pedestrian fly overs.
The Deputy KCCA Spokesperson, Robert Kalumba, says the Authority is in the process of constructing walk ways a cross Kampala to resolve the problem. Our reporter couldn’t get a comment from Uganda National Roads Authority as the calls the spokesperson couldn’t pick calls from our reporter for three days.
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