HARMONISATION OF ROAD SAFETY IN SADCC COUNTRIES: MALAWI EXPERIENCE

This paper discusses Malawi's experience in attempting to apply the SADCC recommendations for harmonisation of traffic safety laws and regulations in Southern African countries. The Southern Africa Transport and Communications Commission (SATCC) established its Working Group on Road Traffic and Transport to promote operational coordination and harmonisation of road safety. It recommended that road safety organsation in the SADCC countries should be reorganised to give high priority to road safety and its coordination, and that there should be local road safety agencies in every district responsible for handling safety problems at district level. The National Road Safety Council of Malawi has therefore established Regional Road Safety Committees. It also receives monthly traffic accident reports from the police, which summarises traffic accidents in Malawi and helps the Council to compile statistics on road accidents in Malawi. The paper ends by detailing the differences between Malawi's present road traffic regulations and the text of SADCC's proposed Road Traffic Act and Regulations. Paper presented at the Second ECA/OECD African Road Safety Congress, Addis Ababa, 16-20th October 1989.

• Corporate Authors:

  United Nations

  Economic Commission for Africa, P.O. Box 3001
  Addis Ababa,   Ethiopia 

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  2, rue André Pascal
  Paris,   France  75775 Paris Cedex 16
• Authors:
  • Mwamlima, L T
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Conferences; Crashes; Law enforcement; Legislation; Safety; Statistics; Traffic regulations
• Geographic Terms: Malawi
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Law; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00498548
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM