Thanks to the Traffic Police and their tireless efforts in placing speed cameras everywhere, Singapore is noted to have the lowest road fatalities in Asia according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
It’s particularly significant too, considering WHO’s report found that the number of deaths in Asia makes up over half of the total number of road fatalities globally. All thanks to China too, whose figure of 261,367 people killed last year topped the chart in Asia, with India coming in second (207,551 fatalities) and Indonesia coming in third (38, 279 fatalities).
In the opposite end of the spectrum, Singapore was recorded to have just 197 deaths, counting about 0.004 percent of the total population of around 5.4 million.
The report also goes on to highlight that some of the ten most populous countries have weak road safety laws. Countries such as USA, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh for example lack best practice legislations on speed, helmets, seat-belts and child restraints.
“The carnage that occurs on the world’s roads every single day is a public health crisis of gargantuan proportions,” exclaims China’s WHO representative Dr Bernard Schwartländer.
“Road crashes impoverish families, ruin livelihoods, and impose a heavy burden on countries’ health systems, societies and economies.”
