NTSA estimates that 3,000 Kenyans die from road accidents every year - costing the country anywhere between 3-5 per cent of GDP. According to experts, a major contributor to Africa’s high rate of road accidents is the substandard enactment of road safety laws in line with global best practices. At present, our approach to coalescing data on road safety at a national level is dependent on consolidating sources from different bodies to produce official statistics and guide road safety policy interventions. These are additional areas in which big data analytics can play a major role, pulling multiple data points to improve the precision of interventions designed at curbing accidents. Data will provide traffic managers with a good view of the roads and use intelligent analytics that provides monitoring to manage traffic flows and encourage safe road usage by motorists.

Source: The Star January 11, 2021 00:56 UTC