Whats different about road safety in lower-income countries?
While certain traffic safety interventions, such as better enforcement of speeding, DUI, and seat belt laws and safer infrastructures, including protected crossings for pedestrians and separate lanes for non-motorized vehicles, have been effective in high-income countries, there are often barriers to their successful implementation in low-income countries. The risks posed to road users in these countries may require new, creative interventions beyond what has been done in wealthy countries. Additionally, what has worked in these countries will not necessarily enjoy the same success in low-income countries. Interventions should take into account the critical differences in these countries, where circumstances of crashes and the nature of crash victims are so different. For example the percentage of drivers among people killed in crashes is much lower in poorer countries (driver deaths being a more commonly used measure than occupant deaths). Drivers make up 10 percent of crash deaths. I
