Uganda, April 23 -- At the burial of Raphael Okiot, 34, a lawyer who died at the Nkumba traffic lights after a cement mixer truck crushed his vehicle last Wednesday, mourners decried the increasing number of road accidents.

The subject has been discussed in these spaces and elsewhere in the newspaper and other media extensively, yet the problem just doesn't seem to end.

The former Inspector General of Police, Mr Martins Okoth-Ochola, while releasing last year's road safety report said the death toll in road crashes increased by 30 percent to 4,179 in 2023 from 3,210 in 2022. He added: "The figure in serious crashes increased to 12,487 in 2023 from 8,860 in 2022."

The general accidents increased by 16 percent from 20,394 in 2022, to 23,...