http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1260165.stm
According to a study published by the World Health Organization, the annual cost of road crashes is about 1% of the Gross National Product (GNP) in developing countries, 1.5% in transitional countries, and 2% in highly motorized countries. They might seem low percentages. Yet, who wants to be killed in a road accident? Who wants to hear about one of his relatives killed in a car crash? Therefore, they are still high numbers. Drugs, alcohol, speed are the most common causes of road accidents. Yet, when we hear that most of these accidents occur on small or damaged roads or by uninsured vehicles. It becomes clear that governments also share a huge part of the responsibility, if not all of it. Governments should pay regular attention to the maintenance of roads. Not only establishing a good network of roads should be guaranteed but also drivers and vehicles should be properly licensed. According to the World Health Organization studies most road traffic accidents’ victims are teenagers or early adults from 20 to 47 years old. To put it differently, they are people from the most active and productive age, which represent a serious economic loss to the community. 
Governments may argue that they have done their utmost for the issue. It is usually due to reckless individuals that the problem continues to occur. Spotlight traffic cameras are the most of what the governments could do to protect people on the streets. Nevertheless, despite the ingenuity of this idea, still, it has a lot of drawbacks. Indeed, no one wants to be on camera at a stop light. It is a sort of violation of people’s privacy. Moreover, what will the highway patrol do if these cameras do their jobs. Some people argue that this new road technology is another source of profits for government. However, nothing is it added to the discipline of the roads. Therefore, in order to cope with the road accident problem, I think that if both parts the government and the people committed themselves strictly to the initial rules of the roads, cameras, which may raise many people’s anger and car crashes, which may take people’s life would have no existence.
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