I asked the driver to stop just past a metal cross that marked some old road death.

They state that road deaths are the leading cause of death amongst healthy young adults.

With over 130,000 road deaths annually, it has the worst record in the world.

Did introducing them cause a sudden drop in road deaths?

The annual number of road deaths this year looks likely to fall below 400 for the first time since 1986.

But it would bring road deaths down to nearly zero.

They have succeeded in reducing road deaths by over 8% a year.

This is because the majority of road deaths, approximately 70%, occur in developing countries.

Every 1 % reduction in road deaths should act as a spur.

That means reducing the number of road deaths to less than 25 000 in the year 2010.