2025 - Road safety apartheid: Plenary 3

Dr Lee Randall, Road Ethics Project, South Africa

Dr Lee Randall is an occupational therapist, bioethicist and road safety advocate. Her research into work conditions and road safety in the Johannesburg minibus taxi industry showed that minibus taxi drivers are akin to an indicator species, pointing to what she calls South Africa’s ‘crashogenic’ road traffic system. As a founding director of the Road Ethics Project nonprofit she fosters ethical literacy around road use and highlights the inequities ‘baked in’ to global mobility systems, which create in effect a road safety apartheid. In her view, an equity lens is imperative for reducing crashes and saving lives, levelling the playing fields between motorised and nonmotorised travellers, private vehicle users and popular transport users, and high-income versus low- and middle-income countries.

Panel facilitated by Katie Hodson-Thomas, FTI Consulting

Lee Randall, Road Ethics Project, South Africa

Shane Turner, Abley

William Wambulwa, World Bank Group / Global Road Safety Facility

Katherine Drakeford, Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure, WA

Jonathon Passmore, World Health Organisation 

Stephen Kome Fondzenyuy, National Advanced School of Public Works, Cameroon