Original version

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Assignment

Factual

Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

Assignment: Romania's killer roads

Documentaries

News

Romania's Killer Roads

22/08/2019 GMT

Romania's killer roads

BBC World Service - Assignment, Romania's killer roads

Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?

Romania has the highest road deaths per capita in the European Union. Can one man's campaign for motorways make the country's roads not just faster but also safer?

Everybody in Romania knows someone who has died in a road accident. The country has the highest road death rate in the European Union – twice the EU average and more than three times that in the UK. A young businessman, Stefan Mandachi, has built a metre long stretch of motorway near his home in the rural north-east of the country, as a visual protest against political inaction and corruption. For Assignment,Tessa Dunlop travels to one of Romania’s poorest regions, Moldova, to meet this new champion of road safety, and the families who have paid the highest price for the country’s poor transport networks.

Producer, John Murphy

(Image: In Romania horse and carts share the roads with fast moving cars – not always happily. Credit : BBC/John Murphy)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Assignment

Romania's killer roads

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

About BBC World Service