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A cargo vehicle accident in rocky place in Debarq, Amhara Region, 2009. In Ethiopia, road traffic accidents are a serious problem. [2] The Analyzing Traffic Accident research suggested that there were more than 29,1577 accidents in the past eleven years, including 912,956 kilometers road network and 68,100 motorized vehicles were developed.
With an estimated 26.7 annual road deaths per 100,000 people, road crashes are common in Ethiopia, Africa's second-most populous nation. According to the United Nations, Ethiopian roads and traffic are poorly regulated. [3] [4]
The Ethiopian Road Transport Authority (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ መንገዶች ባለስልጣን, formerly called Road Transport Administration or RTA) is a public transport authority based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [1] It was founded as the Road Transport Administration in 1967 by Proclamation No 256/67.
The highway, with six lanes on two sides for its 84.7-kilometre (52.6 mi) length, aims to abate the heavy traffic between its two endpoints. It reduces the time required to reach Adama from Addis Ababa to 45 minutes, a reduction of more than 50 percent over the time on previously available routes.
The aviation disaster firm Kreindler also represents victims in the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse and Boeing 737 MAX lawsuits from the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which killed 157 ...
The Ethiopian government had begun the second part of the Road Sector Development Program, which was completed in 2007. This had involved the upgrading or construction of over 7,500 km of roads, with the goal of improving the average road density for Ethiopia to 35 km per 1000 km 2 , and reducing the proportion of the country area that is more ...
The A1 trunk road in Ethiopia connects the central highlands to the sparsely populated eastern region, providing an international route to Eritrea and Djibouti.The middle section, between Addis Ababa and Adama, is a busy corridor passing through urbanized areas, with the Addis Ababa-Adama Expressway running parallel.
Corruption is a perennial problem, particularly among traffic police who solicited bribes. [2] The U.S. Department of State states that its contacts within the Ethiopian government report that the findings of investigations into abuses by local security forces, such as arbitrary detentions and beatings of civilians, are rarely made public ...