{"id":26322,"date":"2025-02-08T23:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26322"},"modified":"2025-02-08T23:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T23:31:56","slug":"traffic-fatalities-decrease-by-14-in-2024-road-safety-efforts-intensified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/traffic-fatalities-decrease-by-14-in-2024-road-safety-efforts-intensified\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Fatalities Decrease by 14% in 2024, Road Safety Efforts Intensified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | January 13, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, Guyana saw a 14% decrease in traffic fatalities, signaling positive progress in road safety initiatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this reduction, road accidents still claimed approximately 154 lives, with motorcycles involved in the majority of fatal incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, expressed concern over the lives lost, emphasizing that even one death is unacceptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry, in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department, aims to reduce road fatalities to no more than 65 annually by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In alignment with the United Nations&#8217; Road Safety Strategy, which seeks to cut traffic accidents by 50%, the Ministry is stepping up efforts to achieve this ambitious goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> To support these initiatives, speed clocks have been installed along the country\u2019s four-lane highways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These devices are designed to monitor traffic speeds, read license plates, and track violations, improving enforcement and ensuring more efficient ticketing processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | January 13, 2025 In 2024, Guyana saw a 14% decrease in traffic fatalities, signaling positive progress in road safety initiatives. Despite this reduction, road accidents still&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26323,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26322\/revisions\/26323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}