road safety students: diana luchian loredana groza coordinator: cristina cornea (teacher) simona...
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Road SafetyStudents: Diana Luchian
Loredana Groza
Coordinator: Cristina Cornea (teacher)
Simona Avramescu (headmaster)
One-year progress update: Decade of Action for Road Safety 2013-2020
Everything and anything can be fixed except death
Be careful not pass
illegally
Road traffic deaths by type of road user
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, 1970-2009
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
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
FINISH
Green for life!
Vetel Secondary School