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ANTIGUA OBSERVER- Road fatalities and traffic collisions are down for the first quarter of this year when compared to the same period last year.
This information has come from members of the Traffic Department within the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda.
Chief Statistician in the Traffic Department Corporal Elsworth Henry gave a rundown of the statistics while speaking on Observer Radio’s Voice of the People on Wednesday.
“For the first quarter of 2025, January to April, we’re seeing a total of 830 traffic collisions. Now if you compare that to last year, same period, there was an increase; 877 last year.
Last year we also had one fatality between the period January to April and this year for the same period we had none for the same period.
“In terms of injuries, in 2025 we saw a total of 72 persons being injured and last year we had a total of 132 injuries.
So injuries are down as well, significantly,” Corporal Henry said.
The corporal noted that the most obvious causes of the collisions are rear-end accidents, which are down this year when compared to the first quarter of last year.
He said in 2024, 123 rear-end collisions were recorded, compared to just 73 so far this year, registering a decrease.
The officer said vehicles exiting junctions were also a significant factor in the collisions – 105 for last year and this number has decreased to 83 so far for this year.
Henry said the Traffic Department tracks collision statistics on five major roads: All Saints Road, Old Parham Road, Friars Hill Road, Sir George Walter Highway, and Factory Road (also known as Sir Sydney Walling Highway).
Of these, All Saints Road had the highest number of collisions for the reporting period and attributes the decline to the public education drive which has been undertaken by their department.
“We attribute this decrease to our road safety programmes in the mornings, where we have our guys going on the various radio stations educating people, telling them, ‘hey, you need to slow down; you need to watch how closely you get to the other vehicle’ because these rear-end collisions, they’re just ridiculous,” Henry stated.
Head of the Traffic Department, Superintendent Elson Quammie was pleased with the efforts being made by his department despite several issues that they are facing.
“I would just like to let you know that we have some very serious challenges, a lot of challenges on our roads today… and we are trying our best in the Traffic Department to see how we could, more or less, reduce these traffic accidents daily.
“That’s one of our main priorities and we see the trend that we have this year, that we, for comparison to last year, we are doing much better than last year in terms of the first quarter.
And we also did a lot of traffic checks on our roads between that first quarter of the year. Our presence was on the road and that makes a lot of difference where we see this trend,” Quammie said.
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Big up to the police—looks like road safety campaigns a pay off.
Mi still see mad drivers every day, but mi glad less people dying.
Tings gettin better but we still need more traffic lights and signs.
Hope dem include motorcycle crashes too—dem bike riders wild!