Uzbekistan authorities are eyeing to halve the number of road traffic accidents with serious consequences by 2030. This is provided for by the draft Uzbekistan-2030 strategy, posted for public input the day before.
The document does not contain figures to reduce the number of road accidents for 2023. For 2024, this figure is planned to be reduced by 10%.
Target parameters for reducing deaths and injuries in road accidents were not added to the draft.
4,000 accidents were recorded in the country in 6 months of this year, 873 people died and more than 3,500 were injured.
These figures are noticeably higher than in the first half of 2022, when 3,559 accidents occurred, 784 people died and 2,775 were injured.
For 2023, the Road Safety Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs set the task of reducing the number of accidents and deaths in them by 15%, however, the number only increased.
The President, at a recent meeting in Ferghana, reprimanded the head of the traffic police, Olim Saidov.
The draft strategy also includes a clause on equipping all non-regulated pedestrian crossings in the country with a width of two or more lanes with traffic lights.
The draft also does not include any parameters for 2023, and in 2024 it is planned to install traffic lights at 50% of all crossings.
