TRUCK&FLEET CONFERENCE UAE
SAVING TIME AND LIVES Johannes Faatz, head of Business Development, Daimler Commercial Vehicles MENA FZE explores why we all need a safer future
Road safety is something which concerns all of us, because every day, you open the newspapers and see pictures of accidents all around the world,” Johannes Faatz, head of Business Development, Daimler Commercial Vehicles MENA FZE tells delegates during the Truck & Fleet Conference UAE. Before leaving for the Radisson Red venue he had seen yet another story of an accident on the roads of the UAE. “It was just yesterday night in Fujairah. Luckily only an injury, so no fatality, but it’s a omnipresent topic, it’s everywhere in the world.” Like most of the transport and 16 JULY 2021
logistics industry, Daimler and Faatz believe one accident, is one too many. “We do not want to see pictures like that. We do not want to read headlines like this.” Fortunately, Faatz believes that progress is being made in the region, even if more could be done. “There are a lot of initiatives going on and we also see that here in the region initiatives can pay off,” he remarks, adding a caveat that statistics involving heavy vehicles are not always easy to find. “However just a few weeks ago there was an interesting article where you could see the number of road accidents and the
The number of accidents is declining, the number of fatalities is not declining as much”
number of fatalities in Oman. These are not heavy truck accidents but you can see from 2012 to 2018, that there is a significant decline of 66 percent in five years. However, you see that the number of deaths is not decreasing in the same manner. So, the number of accidents is declining, the number of fatalities is not declining as much… and of course, each accident, and each fatality is one too much because this person has a family, has partners, and so on.” Like Oman, the host country of this year’s Truck & Fleet Conference UAE is seeing that accident numbers are slowing down. “From 2018-2019, it went from 15 people meconstructionnews.com
