Ground Transportation and Road Traffic Collisions | ExploreSecure®

Posted by ExploreSecure on May 3rd, 2021

A study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) identified on average 1.35 million people annually are losing their lives due to RTCs.  Online Travel Safety Training A long time ago the UK Police changed their terminology from Road Traffic Accident (RTA) to RTC because there is no such thing as a Road Traffic ‘Accident’ – there is always a cause or blame to assign. Last month three charity workers were killed in South Africa as they travelled back to the airport. Their driver lost control of the vehicle and it ended upside-down in a river. Details are still unclear regarding the cause, but the outcome is one that is all too familiar. Travellers dying or being seriously injured as a result of incidents that could have been avoided.  Learn More About  

Ground transportation is the biggest danger to any traveller, yet one of the most neglected from a corporate and organisational perspective, and one that travellers are nearly always most relaxed about. Whether it is an assumption that taxis and rideshare services are safe, or that seatbelts don’t need to be worn on coaches and buses, right through to lack of due diligence on drivers and vehicles assigned to travellers.