WHO Time for Action

The Global status report on road safety reaffirms our understanding of road traffic injuries as a global health and development problem. More than 1.2 million people die on the world’s roads every year, and as many as 50 million others are injured. Over 90% of the death occur in low-income and middle-income countries.

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WHO Save lives (English)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes an ambitious target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2020. It is my hope that this target will leverage renewed momentum for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020. While much progress has been made by governments during the Decade of Action to adopt and enforce new road safety laws on risks such as speeding, to redesign roads with protective infrastructure such as sidewalks, and to ensure that vehicles are equipped with life-saving technologies, governments must rapidly accelerate their efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 3.6.

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WHO Save lives (Arabic)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes an ambitious target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2020. It is my hope that this target will leverage renewed momentum for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020. While much progress has been made by governments during the Decade of Action to adopt and enforce new road safety laws on risks such as speeding, to redesign roads with protective infrastructure such as sidewalks, and to ensure that vehicles are equipped with life-saving technologies, governments must rapidly accelerate their efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 3.6. (Arabic File)

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Halving the no of Road Deaths 2010

This action programmers aims to:

– encourage road users to improve their behavior, in particular through better compliance with the existing legislation, basic and continuous training for private and professional drivers and by pursuing efforts to combat dangerous practices.

– make vehicles safer, in particular through technical harmonization and support for technical progress; the aspects concerning electronic technologies (“e Safety”) will
be covered by a forthcoming Commission communication on information and communication technologies for intelligent vehicles”.

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