After a lot of hue and cry and announcements of new laws no improvements seem to have taken place in the tragic saga of traffic deaths in Karachi. Every day I look at the city pages of various newspapers and am haunted by reports of young men and women, elderly people and sometimes the sole bread earners becoming victims of traffic accidents.

Mostly it is motorcyclists including husbands and wives who become victims and one wonders what a catastrophe this must be for the families they leave behind and who takes care of their children and elderly parents if they have any as in most families specially in the middle classes there is one or two bread earners for families comprising of 10 to 12 individuals. Traffic accidents are not limited to the residents of Karachi but are a global phenomenon.

You will be surprised to know that every year road accidents generate about 120,000 fatalities and 2.4 million injuries in the European Union and here road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults. As far as individual countries are concerned in Austria there are 42.8........

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