Road traffic accident is a major but neglected public
health challenge. The World report on road traffic accident
prevention has indicated that worldwide, an estimated
1.2 million people die in road traffic accident
each year and as many as 50 million are being injured
[1]. Current and projected trends in motorization indicated
that the problem of RTAs will get worse, leading
to a global public health crisis. It has been indicated
that, accordingly, by 2020 traffic accident is expected to
be the third major killer after HIV/AIDS and TB [2].
Due to its perception as a ‘disease of development’,
road traffic accidents and related injuries tend to be
under-recognized as major health problems in developing
countries. According to WHO report, 90% of the
world’s fatalities on the roads occur in low-income and
middle-income countries, which have only 48% of the
world’s registered vehicles [1]. For example, an estimated
total of 227, 835 pedestrians die in low-income
countries, as opposed to 161,501 in middle-income