Police say 525 people die from 9679 road traffic accidents in Q2, 2023

About 525 people died in the second quarter of this year from the 9,679 accidents which were recorded in the country, Police officials have said.

Police Spokesperson, Rae Hamoonga, revealed this in a statement issued in Lusaka on Tuesday.

During the period under review from April 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023, Hamoonga said 421 were recorded as fatal road traffic accidents, while 919 were serious accidents in which 1604 persons were serious injured.

He said 1,844 were recorded as slight injury road traffic accident in which 2,639 persons were slightly injured and the total number of casualties in the second quarter of 2023 was 4,768.

He added that Lusaka Province recorded the highest number of road traffic accidents with 5,601 representing 57.9 percent, followed by Copperbelt with 1,257 accounting for 13.0 percent.

“Central Province recorded 717 representing 7.4 percent, Southern Province with 567 at 5.9 percent. North-Western recorded 370, which stood at 3.8 percent, Eastern Province recorded 3.6 percent,” Hamoonga said.

He said Luapula Province posted 259 at 2.7 percent, Western with 204 at 2.1 percent, Muchinga with 178 representing 1.8 percent and Northern Province with 174 at 1.8 percent.

Hamoonga said during the second quarter of 2023, a total of 9,679 road traffic accidents were recorded as compared to 8,438 the corresponding period last year.
He said this indicates a slight increase in the number of road traffic accidents by 1,238.

Hamoonga further said a total amount of K12, 202,397 was collected as Admission of Guilty fines in 2022 as compared to K15, 106,514 collected in this year’s quarter and this shows an increase in Admission of Guilty fines by K2, 904,117.

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