The Decade of Action for Road Safety

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The Decade of Action for Road Safety Rob Klein
GHVI /FiA Foundation
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ROAD TRAFFIC DEATHS AND INJURIES A FAST GROWING
GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
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Why is this happening?

• Low institutional technical capacity
• Lack of driver training
• Unsafe/unsuitable roads
• Little enforcement of key risk factors e.g.
  Speed, helmets, seat belts, drink driving
• Vehicles constantly added to unsafe environment

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Vehicle growth to 2020

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Global Impact of road traffic injuries
Harvard University
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Road traffic injuriesthe forgotten killer
Source WHO GBD 2008
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Commission for Global Road Safety Make Roads
Safe Campaign

• Framed road safety as a development issue
• Proposed and campaigned for a global ministerial
  level conference
• Proposed and campaigned for a UN Decade of
  Action for Road Safety

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Million name petition for a UN Conference
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Launching the Decade of Action Saul
Billingsley, Deputy Director, FIA
Foundation Policy Forum, Como, 17th May 2010
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Global Ministerial Conference on Road
Safety Moscow November 2009

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2nd March 2010
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UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 2nd March 2010
Proclaims the period 2011-2020 as the Decade
of Action for Road Safety, with a goal to
stabilize and then reduce the forecast level of
road traffic fatalities around the world
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Harvard Projections on RTI Deaths
Decade of Action
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Changing Direction Potential of a Decade of
Action for Road Safety
Best case scenario, assuming policy era investment
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Changing Direction Potential of a Decade of
Action for Road Safety
Best case scenario, assuming policy era investment
Guria, J for CGRS, 2009
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Changing Direction Potential of a Decade of
Action for Road Safety
Best case scenario, assuming policy era investment
Stabilisation
Guria, J for CGRS, 2009
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G20 road death rates a concern for all

WHO Global Status Report, 2009
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- non monthly -
DECADE ACTION PLAN

Five pillars for a Safe Systems approach
Build Capacity
Safer User behaviour
Build Safer Roads
Build Safer Vehicles
Improve Post-crash care
www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action/
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WHAT IS THE DECADE OPPORTUNITY?

• For road safety to punch its weight as a policy
  issue
• To motivate and encourage political and resource
  commitments both globally and nationally
• To stimulate donors to integrate road safety
  into their assistance programmes
• To encourage industry and regulators to perform
• Accelerate the adoption of good practices in
  LMICs
• To save millions of lives

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CAN UN DECADES DELIVER...?
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Ban Ki Moon UN Secretary General
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Endorsement of the Tag
Public figures and celebrities
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MORE INFORMATION Go to the following
websites http//www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of
_action http//www.decadeofaction.org