Dozens of road accident cases occurred in last few weeks. Daily we see many road accidents news on media. Last year more than 500 Karachi citizens lost their life in road accidents while around eight thousands people injured. According to a traffic research association, majority of people who died or injured were under age of sixteen. More than 2000 people got serious while 5200 got slight injuries.
Most Accidents were occurred on MA Jinnah Road, Shahrae Faisal, University road, Rashid Minhas Road, Maripur road, I.I Chundrigae road, national highway, Nagan Chowrangi and Korangi Road. According to statistics the numbers of people died in 2010 due to traffic accidents are double as compare to 2009 stats.
Main reason of these accidents was lack of pedestrian bridges in public and commercial areas. In last two years, few see only few new pedestrian bridges which are not enough.