A man carries a woman and three children on a motorbike as they negotiate a busy city street.

As motorcycle ownership in sub-Saharan Africa has grown from less than five million in 2010 to an estimated 27 million in 2022, the rate of death and injury from crashes has surged. In Togo, 72% of all road deaths are due to motorcycles, officially accounting for 681 lost lives in 2021.