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Public Security Directorate

• Col. Eng. Ahmad S. Al-Warawra

Road Safety Situation In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 2017

Director of Jordan Traffic Institute

• Introduction.
• Traffic safety status in Jordan .
• Main factors that contribute in increasing the No. of

RTA and their results in Jordan

• Challenges.
• Needs.

Presentation Context

• 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.

Introduction

• 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

Number of Registered Vehicles Population (Million) Number of Vehicles /100,000 population

Number

• f People/

Vehicle

Year

21970 1.508 8.1456 69 1970 232361 2.796 8310.48 12 1986 1502420 9.798 14823.38 7 2016

The Evolution of Population and Vehicles in Jordan (1970-1986-2016)

Jordan Location Globally According to The Number of Fatalities / 10,000 Vehicles 2015

Jordan Location Globally According to The Number of Fatalities / 100,000 Population 2015

The Average Annual Increase Was 8.6% .

1412817 1502420 1331563 1263754 1213882 1147258 1075453 994753 905592 841933 200000 400000 600000 800000 1000000 1200000 1400000 1600000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Number of vehicles (2007-2016)

Number of RTA that resulted in Injuries (2007-2016) The average annual decrease was 0.21%.

11329 9794 10234 11005 11516 11004 10227 9759 9712 10835 8500 9000 9500 10000 10500 11000 11500 12000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Number of injuries that resulted from RTA (2007-2016)

The annual rate of increase in the number of Injuries is 0.31%. 17969 13913 15662 17403 18122 17143 15954 14790 16139 17435 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000 20000

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). 992 740 676 670 694 816 768 688 608 750

200 400 600 800 1000 1200 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Numbers of fatalities that resulted from RTA (2007-2016 )

Distribution of RTA by type (2016)

9.60% 34.00% 56.50%

Roll over Pedestrian Crash

Distribution of RTA fatalities by road user (2016)

37.84% 31.73% 33.60%

Driver Pedestrian Passenger

Distribution of RTA injuries by age group (2016)

• 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

200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800

<2 3--5 6--8 9--11 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+

Fatalities, age group and road user for the year 2016

10 20 30 40 50 60 70

<2 3--5 6--8 9--11 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+

Driver Pedestrian Passenger

pedestrians

• The age group(24-29) was

(19.1%) of pedestrian fatalities

• children less than 18 years

recorded( 51.1%) of pedestrian fatalities. passengers

• The age group (0-2) was the

highest of passenger fatalities ( 25.8%)

• children less than 18 years

recorded ( 61.1%) of passengers fatalities. drivers

• The new drivers (21-23) recordrd

(14.5% )of drivers fatalities

• Elderly more than 60 years

recorded the highest (15.9% )of drivers fatalities .

50 100 150 200 250 300 350

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 267 259 239 275 323

Distribution of RTA in Jordan by cause 2016

0.41% 0.88%

98.72%

Road Vehicle Human

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
• f 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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