Morocco’s Road Deaths Plummet 76% as COVID-19 Lockdown Reduces Traffic

5 deaths compared to 21 deaths two weeks earlier, i.e. before confinement. These are the figures announced on Tuesday by the DGSN. This makes the kingdom record its lowest road mortality rate. A first.

5 deaths and 271 injuries, including 10 seriously, in 218 cases of traffic accidents during the period from March 23 to 29, compared to 21 deaths and 2,211 injuries in one week before the entry into force of the state of emergency. These figures prove that confinement has greatly contributed to reducing the road mortality rate. The implementation of a system composed of fixed and mobile control posts on the main and secondary road axes has also contributed to the results obtained.

The DGSN announces that 1,617 tickets and 776 reports were submitted to the public prosecutor’s office; 841 transactional fines were collected against 47,482 tickets, 12,233 reports and 35,249 transactional fines before confinement.

171,350 dirhams were collected by impounding 525 vehicles, seizing 187 documents and withdrawing 64 vehicles from circulation.