Road accidents such as accidents, fatalities, serious injuries, slight injuries, injury fatal ratio and fatality isgoingup everyyear in Nepal. Driving in Nepal needs great calm as well to cope with tiny, overcrowded mini-buses that edge up close so the drivers’ assistants can bang on your car warning that you are close to colliding with them.
The virtually motionless line traffic can nearly drain your pool of patience as you enter Kathmandu via the sole road leading to the capital of this mountain nation. You crawl languidly in a mostly two-lane road behind trucks and buses that howl all night long, their horns seemingly praying for a place to speed up. The traffic problems in Kathmandu and Nepal can be blamed on the arrival of the 21st century in a luscious but poverty-stricken country. Outside Kathmandu, drivers must contend with narrow, out-dated roads through mountainous terrain sometimes overcome by landslides. It is estimated that nearly half of Nepal’s population does not have access to all-weather roads. But the main problem in the rural areas is getting medical care for accident victims. Within Kathmandu, the explosion of vehicles, mostly of the two-wheel kind, is a confounding dilemma. Motorbikes make up three out of four of the vehicles on Nepal’s roads, according to research studies. The bikes are everywhere and they clog the roads like metal birds pushing to get ahead. Kathmandu’s basic problem is that there are too many narrow alleys and streets throughout the ancient city and too few broad roadways and too few traffic lights and traffic police to cope with the flow of traffic. One result of the crunch on Kathmandu’s roads is a 130 percent increase in accidents in the last five years, according to figures from Kathmandu’s Traffic Police.
