Morocco has experienced an important development of the road traffic which has resulted unfortunately in a recrudescence of the accidents which involve each year of the thousands of victims. During the 20 last years, 741971 personal injuries of the road traffic were recorded in Morocco, that isto say on average 37100 accidents annually and 102 accidents per day. These accidents involved 1,147,564 victims including 59109 killed over the 20-year period with 2955 killed annually. Between 1996 and 2004, the averageannual increase in the number of killed is about 4.7%. The Ministry for the Equipment and Transport worked out, within the framework of the North- South co-operation, an integrated national strategy for road safety, whichled to the formulation of strategic axes and an action plan being spread out over 10 years to reduce the problem of the road traffic accidents. This strategy with for objectives: inversion in less than three years of the upward trend of the annual number of killed and severely wounded persons; after this inversion of trend, to maintain a reduction of the number of killed and severely wounded persons at annual rates of 5%. After two years of implementation, this strategy has had encouraging results. Indeed, the comparative analysis of the statistical data of 2005 with those of 2004 emphasized what followed: a reduction of 7.11% in the number of fatalities and a reduction of 11.37% in the number of severely wounded persons. For thecovering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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