National Road Safety Day

Participants at a meeting held in Khenifra on the occasion of National Road Safety Day, celebrated every year on 18 February, stressed the need for joint action and general mobilisation to tackle the scourge of road accidents, as road safety is "everyone's responsibility".Opening the proceedings of this meeting, the governor of the province, Mohamed Ali Oukassou, indicated that this National Day provides an opportunity to evaluate the various measures and efforts deployed by the different services concerned to stop the carnage. This day also offers the opportunity to measure the effectiveness of the resources mobilised to deal with the rise in road accident victims and to examine the programmes and strategies to be implemented in the future in order to meet this challenge, he added.After highlighting the enormous socio-economic losses caused by this "road war", the governor considered t…