NATIONAL

ROAD SAFETY COMMISSION

Date : 11th September 2018
 PRESENTATION OUTLINES

• Road Safety Situation

• Safety Performance Indicators
• Road safety interventions, activities and programmes.
 ROAD SAFETY STATISTICS IN MAURITIUS – 2008-2017
800
727 715
705
700 680
639 642 651
634
619
601
600
531797
507676
486144 Fatalities
500 465052
443495
421926
400119
400 384115
366520 KSI (Killed and Seriously
351406
injured)

300
Fleet of m/vehicles

200 168 158 152 156 144 157 Linear (Fatalities)

140 136 137 139

100
Linear (KSI (Killed and
Seriously injured))
0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
 Final outcome indicators
Fatality rates
14 13.1 12.8 12.8
12.5 11.8
12
11.2 11.2 11.4

10

4 4 4
4
3 3 3 3 3
2

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Rate /100,000 population Rate /10,000 motor vehicles
Comparative Rates of fatalities of some
countries - year 2012

Countries Fatality Rates Fatality rates /10, 000

/100,000 population m.vehicles
Zimbabwe 28.2 42.98
South Africa 25.1 13.39
Zambia 24.7 67.9
United States 10.6 1.29
United Kingdom 2.9 0.51
France 5.1 0.76
Mauritius 12.8 4
 Auto/motorcycle FATALITIES
ROAD SAFETY STATISTICS IN MAURITIUS – 2008-2017
250

205.993
199.399
193.688
187.851
200 180.785
173.508
165.706
159.329
No of riders killed
147.988 152.935
150
Fleet of auto.motorcycles

Rate of fatality/100,000
Veh 100
Linear (No of riders killed)
70 66
56 61
53 54
47 42
50 37 38
40
33 28 30 28 33 29
25 25 23

0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
 Casualties by road user category
1800
1536 1548
1689 2015
1600

1400
2016
1200
943 9151006
1000
2017
800
683 651 644
598 594 562
600

400

200 170 154 177

0
Pedestrian Passenger Driver Rider Pedal cyclist
ROAD SAFETY INTERVENTIONS, ACTIVITIES
AND PROGRAMMES.

THE NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY

STRATEGY 2016-2025

Road Safety Management

Road safety
Safer Safer Safer road Post –crash
management
roads and vehicles users response
mobility www.decadeofaction.org
www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action
 ROAD SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Tools for Research and Development set up
Objective: Achieve Capacity to have realistic road crash data and analysis.

 A new web based Road Crash Data Management System has been set up - iMAAP.
 Research and Road Crash investigation teams constituted
 Setting up of new performance indicators for assessment of Road Safety
Road safety
interventions management

 National Road Safety Observatory Website in progress

The TMRSU is being restructured for the setting up of the above tools
during the course of this year and to make effective use for Road Safety
Management under the direction of the National Road Safety Council.
 SAFER ROADS AND MOBILITY
• Improving Safety standards of our Road infrastructure

 Training by a Swedish consultancy firm to RDA and TMRSU Technical staff

 to improve ‘safety-conscious’ planning, design, construction &

operations

 Conduct five stage Road Safety Audits for new road projects

 Road Safety Assessment of 400 kms of roads – Remedial actions in Phases

Safer roads
and safety
Road
 Road Side Hazards Intervention Program - Implementation in Phases management
mobility
 SAFER ROADS AND MOBILITY
Treatment of hazardous Road Segments carried out across the
island includes:
• Installation of crash barriers along hazardous sections of roads
• Construction and rehabilitation of hard shoulders;
• Fixing of delineators and reflectorized cat’s eyes;
• Construction of bus lay-bys
• Upgrading of Traffic signs and road markings.
• Construction and upgrading of Footpaths and Pedestrian handrails
 Safer SAFER VEHICLES
vehicles

• The Motor Vehicle Fitness control Centres are operating in

Mauritius since two years and is a great leap towards
modernity.

• NTA
• Three fields of actions need to be addressed the sooner
possible as follows:
a)Reducing the age at which a motor vehicle is subject
to fitness control from 7 years to 5 years.
b)Setting up a training program for Motor vehicle
examine(syllabus and certificates of competency)
c) In respect of the total loss policy, mandatory
examination of all vehicles involved in road crashes.
 CRACKDOWN OPERATIONS
BY NTA & POLICE
Regions targeted: Triolet, Pointe aux Piments, Mon Choisy, Grand Baie,
Curepipe, La Brasserie, Midlands, Phoenix, Quatre Bornes and Rose Hill.

Period 24 to 31 August 2018

• 164 prohibition notices issued where vehicles were found not to be
roadworthy.
• 457 contraveners booked for parking offences
• 141 contraventions relating to illegal operations
• 1223 contraventions established for other road traffic offences .
 Safer SAFER VEHICLES
vehicles

A review of the total loss Motor vehicle policy and recycling

programme is underway and a motor vehicle salvage yard is
understudy.

Ministry of Environment / MPI&LT/Association des

Assurances/MVDA
(i) Setting up the legal framework (total loss, automobile expertise,
recycling and disaggregating of vehicles)
(ii) Training program for experts
(iii) Implementation of the vehicle salvage yard
 SAFER VEHICLES
Re-organising the Road worthiness control of vehicles

 Vehicles fitness mandatory for auto/motorcycles to be reviewed

 Implement new car assessment programme
 Equip all new cars with minimum safety features

Road safety
Safer Safer Safer road Post –crash
management
roads vehicles users response
and
mobility
 Safer road users
Setting up an effective Communication Strategy

 Raising awareness on road hazards, road crashes and their

consequences for vulnerable road users through regular campaigns.
 Through the Media
 Public Talks Safer road
users

 Road Safety March

The National Road Safety Council has approved the Road Safety
Communication plan for 2018/2019.
STRICTER LAW AND ENFORCEMENT

• New Penalty System for drivers cumulating

more than 4 serious Road Traffic Offences

• New legislations with Stricter Penalties

• No tolerance for drink driving

• Amendments to the Road Traffic driving

licence Regulations

• Setting up and training of a Traffic

Enforcement Squad
 Safer road users
Establishing a continuum of Road Safety Education

 Introducing a continuum of the Road Safety Education programme

from pre-primary up to tertiary levels:
 Training of Officers to deliver practical RSE (4 Pistes)
 Presentation of the Continuum of RSE to officers of the Ministry of
Education
Safer road
users  Elaboration of the Continuum of RSE training programme with
Mauritius Civil Service College for holistic teachers
 Safer road users
Establish a continuum of Road Safety Education
Stakeholders - Ministère de l’Education/MPI&LT/ PROI/ Business Mauritius
Integration of the Continuum of RSE in the curriculum of the students
Teachers pedagogical Guide (MIE- Holistic teachers)
Training Plan 2018/2019 (plus de 800 personnes concernées)
Road Safety practical training to school children (enfant cycliste) academic year -2019
Human resources and logistics (tracks et bicycles - procurement, management and maintenance)
Delivering ‘ permis piétons et permis vélo’
Setting up Computer files for the follow up of students
Introduction of the Continuum for grades 7 & 8
Agreement for the utilization of CSR funds for the project
Creation of a website (accord de cooperation avec BM)
 Safer road users
Re-engineering the Driving licensing scheme
 Motto Ecoles set up to deliver standard training course for
auto/motorcycle riders;
 The licensing scheme for auto/motorcycle riders reviewed.
 Driving training for Instructors and test examiners first batch
completed for auto/motorcycles
Safer road
users
 Driver training for motorcars being reviewed
 Learner driver’s logbook introduced
 Safer road users
Re-engineering the Driving licensing scheme
POLICE/MPI&LT
 Structuration du réseau des driving schools pour tous les permis
 Compléter le cadre legal
 Redéfinition de l’organisation pédagogique selon les termes du nouveau cadre légal et avec le
logbook
 Une nouvelle organisation pour les tests (théorie et pratique, pour tous les permis)
 Planification et analyse des besoins (instructeurs/examinateurs/formateurs, établissements)
Safer road  Plan de formation des instructeurs et des examinateurs (budget et procédures)
users
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Reducing Socio economic costs & funding of the road
safety Strategy
 Road Risk Prevention Plans in private and public enterprises;
 A Road Safety Charter has been signed by Private sector
organisations and a Business Road Safety programme (BUROS)
being implemented & monitored by Business Mauritius .

 The Ministry of Civil Service is collaborating to conduct the same

exercise in the Public Sector Organisations.
 Safer road users
Charte pour la sécurité routière
 La Charte a été adoptée par le Conseil puis par la Commission
Nationale en avril 2017
 Plus de 40 signatures par des organisations du secteur public et
du privé concernant plus de 10 000 personnes
 Programme BUROS par Business Mauritius
 Adoption d’un guide de procédure pour la mise en place des PPRR (objectif “zéro
accident”)
Safer road
users  Formation de plus de 50 personnes comme chef de projet
 Lancement de la phase 1 : le diagnostic (phase 2 à suivre : définition des enjeux)
 THANK YOU
FOR
YOUR KIND ATTENTION

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