{"id":189634,"date":"2025-01-26T01:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T23:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-road-safety-awareness-a-call-for-immediate-action-to-save-lives-in-liberia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T01:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T23:57:27","slug":"liberia-road-safety-awareness-a-call-for-immediate-action-to-save-lives-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-road-safety-awareness-a-call-for-immediate-action-to-save-lives-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Road Safety Awareness &#8211; a Call for Immediate Action to Save Lives in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">With a rising tide of road accidents claiming lives and leaving countless injured, Liberia is facing a dire road safety crisis that demands immediate and decisive action from all sectors of society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In recent months, Liberia has seen a troubling surge in road accidents, which traffic authorities now identify as one of the leading causes of death in the country. The causes of these accidents are varied but often include reckless driving, deteriorating road conditions, limited enforcement of traffic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240660.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a rising tide of road accidents claiming lives and leaving countless injured, Liberia is facing a dire road safety crisis that demands immediate and decisive action from all sectors of society. In recent months, Liberia has seen a troubling surge in road accidents, which traffic authorities now identify as one of the leading causes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[6394,258,256,8837,6880,4712,1107,8485,257,7414,4672,7301,254],"class_list":["post-189634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awareness","tag-call","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-road","tag-safety","tag-save","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}