Conclusions

Road safety is a very serious problem in Georgia. In 2016, there were 581 people killed and 9,951 injured, which also resulted in huge economic losses for the Georgian economy. The growing numbers of casualties are imposing severe strains on the scarce resources of police, medical and other agencies that have to cope with the consequences of traffic accidents. Moreover, the beds in emergency wards of Georgian hospitals are taken up with road accident victims consuming medical and other resources which are already in short supply. The situation is expected to get much worse in the near future as Georgia enters the explosive phase of motorization with very rapid growth in the number of vehicles.

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