Road safety crisis: Liberia

The question this study answers: what would cut road deaths in Liberia fastest — across engineering, enforcement, post-crash care and data — and how can it be financed without waiting for a new donor cycle? Liberia carries one of the heaviest road-death burdens in the world relative to its size. The World Bank’s road-safety work has described the country as holding the highest estimated road traffic death rate on earth (35.9 per 100,000 in the data underpinning its Road Safety Initiative brief; the World Bank indicator series the radar flagged puts it at 38.9 per 100,…

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