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Road safety is a major development, public health and transportation problem in many countries. Road traffic injuries take a way the human and financial resources that countries need for development. This book, based on a Ph.D degree thesis by the author, provides a comprehensive analysis of road safety policy in Kenya. The book focuses on three key issues: spatio-temporal patterns of road traffic injuries, selected underlying socio-economic dynamics and effectiveness of intervention measures.

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Meleckidzedeck Khayesi is a Human Geographer, with a Ph.D degree in Transport Geography. He was a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Kenyatta University, Kenya. He is currently working on road safety policy at the World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

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