Brigadier Mohammed Abdullah Al Malki, Secretary of the National Traffic Safety Committee. Pic: Baher Amin/The Peninsula
Brigadier Mohammed Abdullah Al Malki, Secretary of the National Traffic Safety Committee, has said that since the implementation of National Road Safety Strategy in 2013, deaths in road accidents have decreased by more than 60 per cent.
“For 2019, all indicators, so far, show a decrease in deaths in traffic accidents. Also, the World Health Organization praised Qatar’s role in reducing traffic accidents, especially since the implementation of the National Road Safety Strategy,” he added.
Al Malki pointed out that after the good results achieved by National Traffic Safety Committee, Qatar presented the strategy to the United Nations, especially the World Health Organization as a help to developing countries that need to reduce deaths in traffic accidents. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) under the slogan ‘Life is not a car part’ held recently, Al Malki said that the first phase of the National Road Safety Strategy started from 2013 to 2018 and the second action plan of the Strategy began from 2018 which will end in 2022.
“The Qatari experience will be presented at the Second World Conference on Road Safety for Developing Countries, which will be held in Qatar at the end of November 2020 under the supervision of the United Nations,” Al Malki added.
The success of the Qatari experience strategy, he said, was due to the government support.
Over the past five years, more than 1,000 km of roads have been completed by Ashghal. The most important thing is that despite the increase in the number of vehicles which is more than 1 million and the population which increased in the past years by about 800,000, Qatar succeed to reduce deaths in traffic accidents.
