Although the number of road accidents dropped by 21 in December 2018 compared to the same period in 2017, the overall statistics still paint a grim picture.
The reintroduction of the Michuki rules has been credited with the slight reduction. Focus must now shift to pedestrians. They formed more than a third of the 3,146 lives lost last year to road accidents. While 745 passengers and 305 drivers perished on our roads, a whopping 1,203 pedestrians were killed.