ROAD TRAFFIC SAFETY

BY

National Council for Road Safety

&
University of Moratuwa

SRI LANKA
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 SRI LANKA

Geographical location - Northern latitudes 5o 55’- 9o 50’and

Eastern longitudes 79o 42’ - 81o 53’

Population - 20.01 Millions (2007)

Total area - 65,610 sq km (Land 62705 sq km, Inland water

2905 sq km)

Maximum length - 432km (North to South)

Maximum width - 224 km (East to West)

Climate - Average Rainfall 1836 ml.

Mean Temperature Low country 27Co
Hilly country 22Co
Humidity varies from 70 % daytime to 90% at night

Topography - Low lands 0-75m above MSL

High lands above 70m MSL

Highest Altitude 2527 m above MSL

Ethnic Groups

• Sinhalese - 74%
• Tamil - 18%
• Moor - 7%
• Others - 1%
Religion
• Buddhist - 72%
• Hindu - 12%
• Islam - 8%
• Christianity - 5%
• Others - 3%
Health
• Life expectancy - 74 years
• Infant mortality rate - 12.0 deaths per 1000
live
births
Education
• Free education
• Literacy rate -92,53 %
• Male – 94.5%
• Female – 90.6%
 ADMINISTRATIVE
UNITS

9 PROVINCES

COLOMBO 25 DISTRICTS
(Commercial Capital)

SRI JAYAWARDANAPURA KOTTE

(Administrative Capital)
 Road Network of Sri Lanka
• National Roads - 11,902 km
– Road Development Authority
• Provincial Roads - 16,532 km
– Provincial Councils/Road Development Authority
• Local Roads - 64,652 km
– Municipal/Urban Councils, and Local Authorities
ƒ Estate Roads - 24,400km

Rail Network of Sri Lanka

Length of Railway : 1640 km
 Road Density
Country km per Sq. km per 1000
km population
Nepal 0.13 0.71
Pakistan 0.33 1.73
Bangladesh 0.95 1.01
Butan 0.2 5.71
India 1.01 2.78
Sri Lanka 1.61 5.53

Road Density is 1.61 km/Sq.km

Which is a very high value….
Responsible Organisations for Road Safety

• National Council for Road Safety

• National Transport Commission
• National Transport Medical Institute
• Road Development Authority / Locale Authorities
• Department of Police
• Dept of Motor Traffic
• University of Moratuwa
National Council for Road Safety

Vision “SAFE ROAD FOR ALL”

Mission “TO PROMOTE A SOCIEITY FREE

OF ROAD ACCIDENTS”
 National Council for Road Safety
POLICIES
• Road safety to be given political priority
• Effective legislation to ensure maximum Road safety
standards
• Strict enforcement of Road safety regulations
Promote Road safety strategy for health promotion
• Motor vehicles to meet with safety standards
• Promote educational awareness and campaign programme
towards Road safety
 National Transport Commission

The functions of the Commission are to

advise the Government on the national
policy relating to passenger transport
services
 National Transport Medical Institute

• Assist and educate drivers to reduce road

traffic accidents due to medical reasons.
• To advise the Ministry of Transport on
medical and health matters pertaining to
drivers and prevention of road traffic
accident
 Dept of Motor Traffic

Vehicle Registration

Issuing of Driving License

• Need to pass an examination

• Need to pass the practical test

Education Level of Drivers
 Vehicle Registration
Dept of Motor Vehicles

4,000,000 3.4
3.4millions
millionsinin2008
2008
3,500,000 New Registrations
Total Vehicles
3,000,000

2,500,000

2,000,000
1,500,000

1,000,000

500,000

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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Vehicle Composition
Vehicle Population (composition)2008
7% Land Vehicles
12% Cars
8% Lorries 12% Motor Tricycles

6% Vans

2% Buses

53% Motor Cycles

Available Accident Data
Reported Accident 1989-2012

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Reported Accident
 Reported Accident Vs Insurance Clams

400,000
350,000 Number of Insurance Claims
Reported Accidents
300,000
250,000

200,000

150,000
100,000

50,000
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Fatalities - Road Users
 Casualties - Road Users
30,000
Drivers
Motror-cycle
25,000 Cyclist
Passengers
Pedestrian
20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

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1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Vehicles involved in Accidents 2012
Age Distribution of accident Victims
Experience of Drivers Involved in Fatal Road
Accidents

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Vehicles involved in Accidents (2007)

Vehicles Involved in Accidents

2% cycles
4% SLTB 12% cars

11% private bus

22% Motor Cycles

13% lorries

31% light vehicles

Reason For Traffic Accidents
Reasons for Accidents

Overtaking -19%

Other-40%

Speeding -14%

At Pedestrian Crossing
At Turning -14%
-3%
Negligence of Pedestrian -4% Drunken Driving - 4%

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 Reason for Fatal Accidents
Reasons for Fatal Accidents

Overtaking -22%
Other-31%

Speeding -23%
At Pedestrian Crossing
-4%
Negligence of Pedestrian -5%
At Turning -9%
Drunken Driving - 5%

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Reason for Accidents in 2010-
2012
 Use of Road Safety Devices
Motor Cycle safety
• Helmet Usage

Safety Belt Use in Vehicles

Surveys conducted by University of Moratuwa -2012
 Road Percentage Without Helmet
Province Class Total Adult Children
Southern N 4% 22% 78%
Southern P 8% 41% 59%
Central N 5% 24% 76%
Central P 3% 50% 50%
Sabaragamuwa N 2% 64% 36%
Sabaragamuwa P 19% 69% 31%
North Central N 6% 45% 55%
North Central P 31% 85% 15%
Western N 4% 32% 68%
Western P 4% 50% 50%
All 5% 31% 69%
National Roads 4% 22% 78%
Provincial Roads 8% 50% 50%
 Cars/Vas/SUV (% with Seat Belt)
Passengers
Province Road Class Drivers All Adult Children

N 51.1% 31.9% 40.6% 8.0%

Southern P 53.6% 23.7% 25.4% 11.1%
N 77.8% 69.2% 73.6% 23.7%
Central P 62.4% 39.6% 41.0% 16.7%
Sabaragamu N 66.0% 22.0% 21.4% 25.6%
wa P 28.6% 22.7% 27.8% 0.0%
N 64.0% 12.9% 12.5% 13.2%
Western P 31.2% 17.0% 18.1% 8.3%
 Recommendation of the select
Committee of Parliament
• Drafting a National Policy
• Established the National Council for road safety
under the chairmanship of Prime minister
– Responsibilities are divided among several ministries,
department and Institutions
– Lack of coordination among these bodies has lead to
failure in making timely decisions and precautions

• Creation of a post of Director of Injury Preventions

and Control
 Amendment to the Motor Traffic ACT
• No person under 18 years shall be registered as a
owner of a vehicle
• Certificate of Fitness and Emission certificate should
be produced to obtain Revenue Licenses
• The insurer to whom a claim for insurance is made in
connection with an accident shall inform the nearest
police station (for statistical records)
• One half of all fines shall be credited to NCRS Fund
and the other half to the consolidated fund
Amendment to the Motor Traffic ACT
• Driving licenses for light vehicles are issued in two
stages (At least 17 years old)
– After successfully completing written and practical test ,
Learner’s permit issued for two years
– Regular license is issued after two years of experience
• Driving licenses for heavy vehicles
(At least 20 years old)
– Need a light vehicle license
– Learner’s permit for heavy vehicle issued for two years
– Regular license is issued after two years of experience
 Amendment to the Motor Traffic ACT
• Seat belt shall be used by the Driver and the
front seat passenger
• All the moped motor cycles shall be registered
and need valid driving license to ride
• Accident death is redefined as the death of
any person who was killed outright or who
died within thirty days of a motor accident
 Action Plan

• National council for road safety has had

compiled large number of activities under
number of different strategies, categorized into
four groups as the action plan for road safety.
• In April 2011, these activities were rearranged
under five pillars to be in line with the UN
initiative of the Decade of Action for Road
Safety.
• This revised list was fine tuned after a
stakeholder workshop conducted by the
National Council for Road Safety in
association with the WHO.
• The amended list of actins was distributed to
the participants of the National Road Safety
Conference & Launch of Decade Action for
Road Safety on 11th May 2011 as a draft
action plan.
Category Description
Pillar 1 Build road safety management
capacity
Pillar 2 Influence safety road design and
network management
Pillar 3 Influence vehicle safety design
Pillar 4 Influence road user behavior
Pillar 5 Improving Post Crash Care
Pillar 1: Build road safety management capacity
The creation of multi-sectoral partnerships and designation of lead agencies with the capacity to develop national road s
evidential research to assess countermeasure design and, monitor implementation and effectiveness.

Pillar
Strategies2 : Influence safety road
Majordesign
Activities and network management
Lead Agency
Partner
Agency 1
Partner
Agency 2
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A Conversion of the established 1A1 Establishment of the authority by amendments to the act with
national council for road safety to an inclusion of key ministries including health.
Pillar 3:1A2Influence
authority to act as the lead agency
with implementation powers
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the NRSC with thesafety
and training needs
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necessary infrastructure,
Activities HR Lead Agency
Partner
Agency 1
1A3 Advocating for a separate consultative sub- committee for Road
Global
A Improve Safety deployment
Aspects of road
Safetyof improved vehicle safety technologies for both
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design standards for new roads and
and incentives 1A4 to accelerate
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a national uptake
policy of for
& strategy newroad technologies
safety
effect improvements to existing roads 2A2 Implementation of gazette on road signs and speed limit
Pillar 4: Influence road user behavior
Strategies Major Activities Lead Agency
2A3
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road traffic Standard
and for standards
road design and rules combined with p
specifications available with RDA for ensuring adequate levels of
A Improve the regulations that reduce
standards for registration 3A1 the impact
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a new the key risk factors
of inspection (speeding,
of imported vehicles at drink
the driving, no
safety and to be published
RMV prior to registration.
Pillar 5: Improving Post Crash Care
2A4 Training of RDA engineers to conduct safety audit of designs
Strategies 3A2 Introduce approval for type certification by DMT.
Major Activities Le
2A5 Train and guide Local Authorities in traffic management including
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Pillar Strategies Number of
Activities
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Management
Road 7 37
Vehicle 5 21
Road User 11 73
Post Crash Care 6 28
Total 35 179
• As these actions/activities have been there for
a long period of time some of them were
appeared to be outdated and some need
amendments to suit present conditions.
• In addition due to the large number of
activities listed and many stakeholders have
been identify for a single activity it was
decided to update the list of activities and to
prepare an updated action plan.
• A number of parameters were considered
when updating the activities. They are:
– Lead Agency
– Partner agency
– Expected outcome
– Effectiveness
– Cost
– Key performance Indicator(s)
– Time line
Lead Agency Identify the institution/establishment that should take to primary
responsibility of the identified activity. You may use the abbreviation
suggested. If the organization is not listed, use the full name

Partner agency Institution/organization that should work closely with the lead agency to
achieve the objective. Use the same abbreviations
Expected outcome Indicate what can be expected as the outcome of the proposed activity if
fully implemented. Leave blank if you are not sure
Effectiveness Effectiveness of the expected outcome towards improving overall road
safety, reducing road accidents and injuries. H ‐ Highly Effective, M‐
Moderately effective, L ‐ Less effective

Cost Expected cost/resource requirement to implement the identified

activity. H ‐ High cost, M‐ Moderate cost, L ‐ Low cost
Key performance How the effectiveness of the activity can be measured or evaluated. This
Indicator(s) should be an output related parameter. Leave blank if you are not sure

Time line Time period required to successfully implement the activity. L‐long term,
M‐ Medium term, S ‐ Short term
 Stakeholder
Pillar 1 Activity Time
Rank Primary 2nd 3rd Frame
1A2/1A4 Strengthening of the NRSC with the necessary infrastructure, Human Resources and training needs to develop national policy & strategy
for road safety 1 MOT NCRS S
1B1/1B2 Specific allocation designated for road safety in National Budget for related agencies
2 MOF MOT M
1C4//1C1/1C Introduction of a centralized Link through networking and the establishment of a central and common accident data base at the National
2/1C5 Road Safety Secretariat and maintain and carry out analysis
3 NCRS Police Insurance M
1D1 Encourage R & D in Road Safety and established and a mechanism for research initiatives through universities and research agencies on
competitive funding basis. 4 NCRS University M
1A1 Establishment of the authority by amendments to the act with inclusion of key ministries including health. 5 MOT NCRS MOH M
1A3
Advocating for a separate consultative sub-committee for Road Safety at national level and road safety councils at provincial level Provincial
6 NCRS MOLG councils S
1E1/1E2 Provide specialized short-term training to Police Officers and officers of other stakeholder organizations who are engaged in road Safety
Management 7 NCRS Police S
1F1 Monitor the action plan performance on a yearly basis 8 NCRS L
Stakeholder
Pillar 2 Activity
Rank Primary 2nd 3rd Time Frame

Train road engineers to conduct safety audits and conduct saftry audits & black spot identification on regular basis in each District/Division and rectification of identified
2B2/2A2/2B3
black spots along with the views & comments from relevant road agencies, police department, schools, communities, NGOs etc
1 RDA S

Incorporate appropriate safety standard for road design specifications including signs and markings available with RDA and other road agencies for ensuring adequate
2A3/2B1
levels of safety and to be published
2 RDA MOLG M

2A5 Train and guide Local Authorities in traffic management including parking and maintenance of signs and road markings.
3 NCRS MOLG M

2B4 To effect improvements to the 200 kms of A1, A2, A3 and A4 roads within the Western Province, where identified to be host to over 25% of fatal accidents occur
4 RDA CMC Police M

Ensuring safe journeys for school children by providing reliable and safe public transportation with good vehicles being added to fleet and provision of proper parking for
2G2
school vans
5 MOE Police MOT S

Improve facilities for pedestrians and bicycles in sensitive areas such as school, playgorund & hospital zones and commercial areas and main intersectionsshould be
2A7
fenced to segregate pedestrian and motorists
6 RDA Police L
2E1 Rail Gates to be constructed for all high risk crossings 7 MOT M

Providing a corridor for service lines/cycle lane/pedestrian to be made mandatory requirement in all projects of construction and rehabilitation of national highways (within
2A8
the built up areas both side)
8 RDA L
Pillar 3 Activity
3C3 Encourage bicycles to use accessories necessary for road safety
such as reflectors, lights
3A3 Strengthn DMT for inspecting, supervising and control of approved
garage issue fitness certificates
3B9/3B5 Awarness programmes for drivers to ensure that all necessary
components such as brakes, external lights and signals both in the
front and rear are functional vehicle maintenance and road rules
3C4 Select areas for “Three wheel parks” to be located in appropriate
area / junctions
3E2 Unlawful modifications to vehicles should not be permitted and this
should include restrictions on accessories harmful to road safety an
the environment
3A5 Continuously monitor and Introduce new safety standards &
implement them
3B6/3B2 Strengthen the island wide roadside inspection program .
 Recent Developments
• Introduce GPS technology to report accidents
• Establish Provincial safety Council
• Conduct Series of training programmes to
stakeholders
• Bicycle Sticker programme
Launching of Bicycle Safety Programme
Thank You for Listening