The Problem
According to the World Health Organisation, road traffic accidents are the number one killer of those under the age of 29, with a staggering 1.35 million young lives lost each year.
In Mauritius, we have a population of 1.3 million with a total of 596,873 vehicles on the road and 29,644 accidents annually of which 150 are fatal.
Many of those deaths are entirely preventable, from not wearing a seatbelt to speeding and texting at the wheel, these bad habits are all too common and yet completely avoidablefactors in car accidents, with minor, serious...