The World Health Organization estimates that about 1.2 million people die each year from traffic accidents. It is the leading cause of death for children and young people aged five to 29. One woman who got paralyzed from a road crash is now advocating for safe roads in Kenya.
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00:00The incident itself was very traumatic and the process of rehabilitation has been long.
00:23Like I said, the psychological aspect has been huge, the social aspect has been huge
00:27and the economic aspect has been huge.
00:30Psychologically there was a lot of anger, frustration, denial and I spent a lot of time
00:35not doing a lot with my life because I couldn't reconcile the fact that I could no longer
00:41use my legs.
01:11I think that there is need for all of us to do our part.
01:15Just starting from, for example, the funders of infrastructure, the development partners.
01:21Is it possible that we could mandate governments to secure a specific amount of road construction
01:29funding towards road safety activities?
01:32There's also a personal responsibility that somebody can do.
01:36For example, when you get into a vehicle, wear your seatbelt, just wear your seatbelt.
01:41It helps you and you don't do it for policemen, you don't do it for interventions, but you
01:45do it because it's the right thing to do.