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May 06, 2019 News
For the past 16 years, Guyana has lost 1,869 of its population to road fatalities. Of this figure, 181 are children.
Statistics provided by the Police Traffic Department showed the at least 100 individuals perished every year during this period.
According to the statistics, Guyana’s traffic department recorded 1,646 accidents across the country.
The highest number of deaths was recorded in 2007 where 207 persons lost their lives in 169 accidents. Of those that perished, 30 were children. That year also saw the highest number of road accidents.
The year 2012 captured the lowest number of deaths. Seven children died that year and 103 adults summed up the total.
Although 2007 took the most number of children that died, 2017 recorded the deaths of only two children.
For the 16-year period, the least number of road accidents was calculated to be 98. This was recorded for 2009.
Thus far, for 2019 a number of 36 road accidents have occurred. A total of 38 persons have died so far. Of this figure, 29 are males, 9 are females and one is a child.
Below is a table displaying the number of accidents, deaths and children who died for the past 16 years.
According to Traffic Chief, Linden Isles, the department will conduct its educational talks, programmes and enforcement exercises in an effort to significantly reduce the number of road fatalities.
The Traffic Department has also conducted several educational talks throughout the country and as a result, the number of children involved in accidents has decreased.
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