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Road crashes killed 1.34 million people globally and left 50.9 million others injured in 2023, making road injuries one of the leading causes of premature death and disability worldwide.
This is according to a new study published in The Lancet Public Health, which shows that road injuries were the leading cause of death among people aged 10 to 39 and the second-leading cause of death among children aged five to nine.
The report comes as Kenya continues to record fatal road crashes. Last weekend alone, 21 people were killed in road crashes across the country within 24 hours.
Among the latest incidents was a crash in Ahero, Kisumu, in which two students from the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) died and 29 others were injured while travelling to attend the burial of their student leader, Elvis “Beast” Otieno.
