{"id":567719,"date":"2025-11-14T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=567719"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:59:13","slug":"deadly-african-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/deadly-african-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly African roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_567720\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-567720 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-estrada-africa-2025-04-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-estrada-africa-2025-04-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-estrada-africa-2025-04-800-250x189.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-estrada-africa-2025-04-800-700x529.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-estrada-africa-2025-04-800-120x91.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Olga Ernst\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span>Signage in South Africa designed to prevent accidents<span class=\"media-credits\">Olga Ernst\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even though it is home to just 15% of the global population and 3% of the world\u2019s vehicles, the African continent accounts for almost 20% of the 1.2 million annual traffic deaths worldwide. A study by Science Africa and the World Health Organization (WHO) found that news reports do little to change the situation. News articles often attribute pedestrian deaths to individual failures and traffic accidents to bad behavior, not considering systemic problems such as unsafe roads, inadequate law enforcement, and a lack of sidewalks and crossings. Of the 932 reports analyzed, 65% treated collisions with pedestrians or other vehicles as isolated events and did not provide context, such as the number of previous fatalities in the same area. Only 14% mentioned road safety laws and 11% mentioned infrastructure quality. The articles were published by 25 major newspapers and television stations in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania between September 2021 and September 2024. The study authors recommend that journalists look at the context, rather than focusing solely on drivers and pedestrians, and track the causes of accidents and collisions, such as road conditions or vehicle maintenance failures (<em>ScienceAfrica<\/em>, February 7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Africa leads in road deaths due to structural problems, such as poor roads and lack of law enforcement","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[256],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-567719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-public-policies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567724,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567719\/revisions\/567724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=567719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}