In a bid to crack down on alcohol-related road accidents, the Windhoek City Police will start treating pedestrians in the same way as they would drivers, by breathalysing them at the scene of an accident. Most accidents involving pedestrians happen as punters pile home from busy bars Credit: GETTY 
 
 Police spokesperson Edmund Khoaseb told The Namibian that most accidents involving pedestrians happen at the weekend, particularly late at night when people are staggering home from the pub. “Most of the time, the victims will be coming from bars and under the influence of alcohol, which makes it difficult for them to fully concentrate on the road,” he noted. Khoaseb said some pedestrians also do not adhere to the rules of the road, such as crossing at designated points, or looking out for oncoming traffic. The Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVA) in October last year said 147 pedestrians were killed on Namibian roads, while 832 were injured in 901 pedestrian-related accidents between 1 January 2016 and 4 October 2016.
– Police in Namibia's capital are cracking down on a somewhat unlikely group, reports the BBC, following road accidents that are blamed not only on intoxicated motorists but on tipsy pedestrians. Police spokesman Edmund Khoaseb tells the Namibian that people who survive a run-in with a car will be given a Breathalyzer test. He said most accidents happen on the weekend, when "the victims will be coming from bars and under the influence of alcohol, which makes it difficult for them to fully concentrate on the road." There were 900 pedestrian-related accidents in Namibia last year, nearly 150 of them fatal, per the Namibian. A drunken police officer was charged in 2009 with the traffic deaths of two men. With 2.1 million inhabitants, the country has one of Africa's highest rates of alcohol consumption (though lower than in the developed world), per the World Health Organization. The Telegraph calls the capital "smart, laid back" and known for colonial-era architecture. Windhoek's "lively watering holes," the paper notes, "from now on, are perhaps best explored by taxi." (Namibia is trying radical measures to curb poaching.)