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Introduce road safety classes in our schools

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.

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