The rate is decreasing in France while it is increasing in Africa. By 1989 this increased to 5 100. The contributing factors were the guidelines and standards provided by the Department of Transport to local authorities. The approach to solve the pedestrian problem focused on integration and segregation. Integration concentrates on temporal separation and soft separation such as traffic calming.
Segregation aims at removing the pedestrian from the travelled roadway.
There has been a substantial drop in pedestrian fatalities since 1994 due to an integrated approach to find solutions. The pedestrian fatalities in Kenya are the result of the neglect to provide proper pedestrian facilities. Through this neglect the pedestrian vulnerability to road accidents is increased. The focus on motorists needs changes the matter of pedestrian mobility into a threatened affair pedestrian. The highest incidence of fatalities occur in Nairobi.