Morocco: Social costs from road accidents amount to 2.5% of GDP.

Middle East and North Africa Business Report, January, 2007

Jan. 24--Karim Ghallab, the Moroccan Equipment and Transport Minister, has recently decided that it was time to undertake drastic measures against the macabre statistics of people killed on Moroccan roads. In fact, in addition to the 3,800 lives that are lost every year due to traffic accidents and the countless other victims suffering for a lifetime in the aftermath, the social cost ranges above US$1.2 billion, a staggering 2.5% of the kingdom's GDP.

As statistics generally reveal, it is the driver's misbehavior behind the wheel that is primarily responsible for such deadly ...