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Public Security Directorate Road Safety Situation In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 2017 Col. Eng. Ahmad S. Al-Warawra Director of Jordan Traffic Institute

Presentation Context • Introduction. • Traffic safety status in Jordan . • Main factors that contribute in increasing the No. of RTA and their results in Jordan • Challenges. • Needs.

Introduction • Road traffic fatalities competes with the most serious diseases such as heart disease and cancer. • The problem of traffic accidents is facing most countries of the world without exception, as pointed by the statistics issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) , Traffic Accidents harvest about (1.25) million fatalities per year in addition to (50) million injuries. • The annual economical loss resulting from these traffic accidents is estimated to be about 518 billion US $ for all countries of the world, representing almost 3% of the world GDP.

• Jordan, like other countries, suffers from the problem of traffic accidents, where during last year( 2016 ) a (133686) PDO accidents and (10835) injuries and fatalities accidents were registered, and the result from these accidents was : - (750) Fatalities. - (1841) serious injury and (15594) minor injury. - The cost of traffic accidents for the year 2016 was estimated to 323 million JD .

Traffic Safety Status In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

The Evolution of Population and Vehicles in Jordan (1970-1986-2016) Number of Number of Number Vehicles Population Year Registered of People/ (Million) /100,000 Vehicle Vehicles population 69 8.1456 1.508 21970 1970 12 8310.48 2.796 232361 1986 2016 7 14823.38 9.798 1502420

Jordan Location Globally According to The Number of Fatalities / 10,000 Vehicles 201 5

Jordan Location Globally According to The Number of Fatalities / 100,000 Population 201 5

Number of vehicles (2007-2016) 1600000 1502420 1331563 1400000 1213882 1412817 1200000 1263754 1075453 1147258 1000000 905592 994753 800000 841933 600000 400000 200000 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 The Average Annual Increase Was 8.6% .

Number of RTA that resulted in Injuries (2007-2016) 12000 11005 11004 11500 10835 11516 11329 11000 9794 10500 9759 10000 10234 10227 9500 9712 9000 8500 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 The average annual decrease was 0.21%.

Number of injuries that resulted from RTA (2007-2016) 17969 18122 20000 15954 16139 15662 18000 17435 16000 17403 17143 14000 14790 13913 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 The annual rate of increase in the number of Injuries is 0.31%.

Numbers of fatalities that resulted from RTA (2007-2016 ) 1200 992 1000 768 694 676 800 608 816 750 740 688 600 670 400 200 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 The annual rate of decrease in the No. of fatalities was 2.04% (2007-2016).

Distribution of RTA by type (2016) 9.60% Roll over 56.50% 34.00% Pedestrian Crash

Distribution of RTA fatalities by road user (2016) 33.60% 37.84% Driver Pedestrian Passenger 31.73%

Distribution of RTA injuries by age group (2016) 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 <2 3--5 6--8 9--11 15-17 18-20 21-23 24-26 27-29 30-32 33-35 36-38 39-41 42-44 45-47 48-50 51-53 54-56 57-59 12--14 60+ • The age groups (<2), (21-23) years recorded the highest casualties with a (9%) and (9.19%) resp. • The age group (18-35) is the most affected group of traffic accidents, which accounted for (44.1%) of the total number of casualties in traffic accidents

Fatalities, age group and road user for the year 2016 70 60 50 40 Driver 30 Pedestrian 20 Passenger 10 0 3--5 6--8 9--11 <2 12--14 15-17 18-20 21-23 24-26 27-29 30-32 33-35 36-38 39-41 42-44 45-47 48-50 51-53 54-56 57-59 60+ pedestrians passengers drivers • The age group(24-29) was • The age group (0-2) was the • The new drivers (21-23) recordrd (19.1%) of pedestrian highest of passenger fatalities (14.5% )of drivers fatalities fatalities ( 25.8%) • Elderly more than 60 years • children less than 18 years • children less than 18 years recorded the highest (15.9% )of recorded( 51.1%) of recorded ( 61.1%) of passengers drivers fatalities . pedestrian fatalities. fatalities.

350 323 300 275 267 259 239 250 200 150 100 50 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Distribution of RTA in Jordan by cause 2016 0.41% 0.88% Road Vehicle Human 98.72%

Main factors that contribute in increasing the No. of RTA and their results in Jordan

1. Over Speeding 2. Vehicles defects . 3. Poor roads maintenance . 4. Lack in vision due to environmental causes. 5. Lack of driving experience, especially novice drivers

6. Un deterrent traffic law legislations for drivers committing traffic violations . 7. Drivers fatigue. 8. The lack of pedestrians understanding for traffic safety 9. The slow treatment for traffic accidents hot spots locations . 10. Poor usage of seat belts , children restraints , and motorcycles drivers helmets.

Challenges

1. The multiple entities responsible for traffic safety and the poor coordination among them. 2. Lack of traffic safety legislations. 3. The lack of urban planning, which resulted in random residential, commercial and industrial places distribution, pedestrian accidents, traffic congestion in residential areas 4. Poor public transport services, which led to an increased demand for private cars ownership. 5. Lack of efficient traffic safety awareness programs for road users specially for children . 6. Congestion in roads specially in the capital Amman which has more than 42% of the Jordan population . 7. Weak road network maintenance .

Needs

1. Establishing a single entity to guide national efforts in the field of road traffic safety. 2. Strengthening law enforcement legislations. 3. To Incorporate traffic safety requirements as a long-term goal in urban planning, land use and transport. 4. Developing the public transport services to encourage road users to use public transport instead of private cars. 5. Developing a traffic safety national strategy and action plan for road safety. 6. Having specialized entity concerned with the awareness of traffic safety through all media . 7. Expanding traffic enforcement on mobile offenses using intelligent transportation system(ITS). 8. Submitting new roads projects for traffic Safety auditing to ensure providing newly built roads with traffic safety elements.

9. Providing safety requirements for pedestrians such as pedestrian paths, sidewalks and the application of traffic calming facilities in populated areas. 10. Having specialized entity concerned with the awareness of traffic safety through all media . 11.Developing drivers training centers to ensure the effectiveness of the training process. 12.Introducing all traffic concepts in the curricula of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of high education. 13.equipping vehicles with safety tools to reduce severity of causalities.

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