Uganda, April 4 -- During the launch of the national road safety week 2023 at Mestil Hotel, Kampala, in December 2023, Lawrence Nuwabiine, the Uganda Police director of traffic, said the biggest road traffic problem in Kampala is motorcycle risk and pedestrian vulnerability. He added that motorcycle menace constitutes 80 percent of registered road crash deaths.

Nuwabiine's opinion was based on statistics that the traffic police directorate had registered in just 10 months, from January 2023 to October 2023. In this period, traffic police had registered 1,275 road crash deaths involving motorcyclists, while 513 were motorcyclist passengers. There were also 4,442 motorcyclists who sustained serious injuries and 2,568 motorcyclist passenger...