Intermediary cities ignore too many road deaths

Millions of injuries and more than a million road deaths are overlooked each year because some local governments consider the risk a personal responsibility, according to a recent report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

Several intermediary cities with a record of poor data collection, limited enforcement of regulations and unresponsive institutions were shown in the report to attribute sole accountability of safety to individuals who use busy roads. Around 84 percent of traffic fatalities occur within low and middle-income countries among a sample of 68 in which incidents have risen since 2010. The report uses the examples of Nairobi, Mumbai and Bogotá to illustrate the way the...