One-year progress update: Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020

Etienne KrugDirectorWHO

Road traffic deaths: the facts

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1.3 million deaths 1.3 million deaths 20-50 million injured20-50 million injured

Leading causes of death

Rank Disease or Injury

1 Ischaemic heart disease

2 Cerebrovascular disease

3 Lower respiratory infections

4 COPD

5 Diarrhoeal diseases

6 HIV/AIDS

7 Tuberculosis

8 Trachea, bronchus, lung cancer

9 Road traffic injuries

10 Prematurity & low-birth weight

Rank Disease or Injury

1 Ischaemic heart disease

2 Cerebrovascular disease

3 COPD

4 Lower respiratory infections

5 Road traffic injuries

6 Trachea, bronchus, lung cancer

7 Diabetes mellitus

8 Hypertensive heart disease

9 Stomach cancer

10 HIV/AIDS

2004 2030

Road traffic deaths by type of road user

46%Pedestrian, cyclists and motorized two-wheels riders and passengers

6%Others

48%Car occupants

Other key data

• Worldwide vehicle ownership is forecast to double by 2020.

• Much of this growth will be in emerging markets.

• Road traffic injuries cost countries 1–3% of GDP.

• Only 15% of countries have comprehensive laws which address five key behavioural risks.

Prevention works

Evolution of the number of annual road traffic deaths in metropolitan France, 1970-2009Evolution of the number of annual road traffic deaths in metropolitan France, 1970-2009

Cost benefit

•Seatbelts (USA, Canada, Norway): 1 : 3-8

•Speed cameras (all EU): 1 : 5.9

•Motorcycle helmets (Norway, USA): 1 : 17

•Drinking and driving: 1 : 19-56

Goal of the Decade To halt or reverse the predicted increase in

road traffic fatalities around the world

Global Plan

Road safety management

Safer roads and mobility

Safer vehicles

Safer road users

Post-crash response

High-level national launches

High-level statements of support

Advocacy events

Romania Romania

Lebanon Estonia United States

El Salvador Indonesia

Advocacy events

Cambodia

Brazil South Africa China

Tanzania

India

Commemorations

Hungary Philippines

Mauritius

Illuminations

Geneva

SydneyRio de Janeiro

Buenos AiresNew York

London

TorontoHanoi

Caracas

wMoscow

Celebrities

MediaPrint media: > 300 newspaper articles in > 60 countries:

Accra Mail, Bangkok Post, Economist, Guardian, Irish Times, Jakarta Post, La Nación, The New Zealand Herald, La República, The Times of India, The Washington Post and 18 newswires…

Broadcast media: BBC, CNN,

Globo, Televisa, Voice of Russia…

Web pages: > 1.5 million pages

Facebook: > 3000 fans

Twitter: #roadsafetydecade tweeted > 1000 times reaching > 300,000 people

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Follow up: national level

National plans: e.g. Australia, Austria, Canada, Mexico

New laws: e.g. Chile, China, France, Honduras, New Zealand

Increased enforcement: e.g. Brazil, Cambodia, Russian Federation

Social marketing: e.g. India, Turkey, Viet Nam

Trauma care: e.g. Ghana, Mozambique

Data collection: e.g. Egypt, Kenya

Follow up: global level

• UN Secretary-General's report• UN General Assembly resolution• UN Road Safety Collaboration project groups

• Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme• Road Safety Fund

• Multilateral Development Bank's Road Safety Initiative• Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety• Plans for Second UN Global Road Safety Week (April

2013)

Follow up: monitoring

2nd Global status report on road safety

•Key monitoring tool for the Decade•Data from 180 countries•One-page country profiles•Launch date: end 2012

Some future directions• Additional, coordinated, multi-sectorial country support mechanisms

• More large scale evaluated interventions

• A few agreed priorities (e.g. legislative reform and enforcement)

• Vocal civil society

• Better informed media

• Inclusion of road safety in other agendas (e.g. Rio +20)

• Additional players

"Now we need to move this campaign into high gear and steer our world to safer roads ahead. Together, we can save millions of lives."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon