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A car moving at a speed of 70 kilometres per hour (km/h) has energy equivalent to 40 bullets, a road safety official said, emphasising the need to avoid speeding to save lives.
Speeding vehicles have tremendous kinetic energies that have the potential to take lives, Andrew Pearce, the CEO of Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) said.
"A car moving at 50km/h has roughly the same energy as 20 rifle bullets and a vehicle moving at 70km/h has the about same energy as 40 bullets," he told the Road Safety on Four Continents (RS4C) conference that kicked off in the capital Sunday.
If a pedestrian is hit by a car that is doing 70km/h, death is a near certainty, he noted.
GRSP, a programme of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, works to bring together governments, businesses and civil societies together to address road safety issues in low- and middle-income countries.
In his speech, Pearce highlighted the difficulty in getting adequate funding for tackling the global road safety disaster despite traffic death tolls being worse than natural calamities.
"In May 2008, a cyclone in Burma and an earthquake in China, together claimed around 200,000 lives. Traffic accidents across the world claim the same number of lives every month,"
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