The Global Road Safety Forum (GRSF) helps raise awareness and brings people together to address the global road safety crisis in developing and transitioning countries. This includes advocacy, facilitating collaboration, especially with major institutional bodies, and organizing inclusive stakeholders’ forums regionally and globally.

 

Brazil Passes Comprehensive Legislation on Drink-Driving

On June 18, 2008 Brazil passed Law 11.705, new legislation governing drink-driving and other alcohol-related factors impacting road safety. Dr. Eugenia Rodrigues, PAHO Regional Road Safety Advisor and Transitional Commission member called Brazil "a model for other countries" in the Americas. [Read more...]

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IS THE U.S. ON THE PATH TO THE LOWEST MOTOR VEHICLE FATALITIES IN DECADES?

A new study,  “Is the U.S. on the Path to the Lowest Motor Vehicle Fatalities in Decades?”, conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute suggests that recent reductions in motor vehicle fatalities may represent a shift in driver behavior resulting in the lowest number of U.S. motor fatalities since 1961.  This research is supported through Strategic Worldwide Transportation 2020. [Read the report]

ROAD SAFETY WEEK 2008
"PROTECT THE ONES YOU LOVE"

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BRAKE, a UK road safety charity invites the global community to join them in advocating for safer roads by participating in Road Safety Week 2008. The event will be held November 10-16 and focuses on family safety – “Protect the Ones You Love”. Brake works to prevent road crashes through education campaigns and reaches out to support people who have been injured or lost a loved one to a road traffic crash. Since 2003 Brake has sponsored Road Safety Week in the UK.  [To learn more about this event or starting a campaign in your community visit BRAKE'S website]

The Make Roads Safe Report

The  2007 Make Roads Safe report outlines the recommendations of the Commission for Global Road Safety and contains perspectives from Tony Blair, Desmond Tutu, Michael Schumacher and others [More...]

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Desmond Tutu

"Road deaths represent a huge burden on our health systems and an obstacle to our efforts to overcome poverty. I call on the world community to work together to make our roads safe". - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

 

High Level Ibero-American Road Safety Forum
for Latin America and the Caribbean

Madrid, Spain
February 23-24, 2009

The First High-Level Ibero-American Road Safety Forum for Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Madrid, February 23-24, 2009. The effort is led by Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB) and the planning committee members which include the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, the FIA Foundation, Dirección General de Tráfico de España (DGT), the Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia (RACC), and the Transitional Commission for Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting is directed to Ministers of Transport, Interior/Police, Health, Finance, Education, Urban Planning, and Tourism, legislators, policy makers, program planners and implementers, advocates, researchers, and others concerned with road safety in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Meeting ojectives include:

  • Raise the issue of road safety on the political agendas of the countries and international and multi-lateral organizations and increase the involvement of ministers and heads of state in the region.
  • Contribute to the development of regional and national road safety plans for Ibero-America and the Caribbean.
  • Mark the entry into the next phase of global road safety focusing on new ways of assessment, implementation and delivery.
  • Use this Ibero-American meeting and the regional support to help drive active participation in the first global high-level (ministerial) conference on road safety that will take place under UN auspices in November 2009 in Moscow.
  • Help implement the recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, the UN and World Health Assembly resolutions on road safety, and the report of the Commission for Global Road Safety. [En español]

 
 

EDU-CAR Uruguay Child Road Safety Initiative

Data, Engineering & Policy Update

EDU-CAR, the Uruguay Child Road Safety Initiative launched in December 2007, is implementing a three-pronged approach to protecting children on Uruguay’s roads:  data collection, engineering and public policy reform.   The data team recently concluded observational studies that revealed more than 80% of Uruguay’s children are unrestrained while traveling in vehicles.  The team is currently analyzing baseline data.

The Engineering group found that many vehicles are not properly equipped with three-point safety restraints and unsafe child restraint products are currently marketed throughout Uruguay.  EDU-CAR’S engineering team is working to address both school bus and private vehicle safety.  Working with UNASEV, Uruguay’s lead road safety agency,  EDU-CAR is helping to ensure that safety restraints used in school buses adhere to adequate safety standards.  To address private vehicle safety, the team is working to identify appropriate and safe restraint retrofit kits that can be made available on a cost-effective basis to the average Uruguay consumer.

On the policy front, EDU-CAR is supporting UNASEV in formulating and passing seat belt legislation with appropriate enforcement measures.  The policy group is looking forward to the 2009 Uruguay national elections and to ensuring road safety is included on the candidates’ agendas.

 

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Amb Al-Hinai

United Nations
62nd General Assembly adopts Resolution

November 2009 Ministerial Conference

In the Monday, March 31st U.N. General Assembly session, Ambassador Fuad Al-Hinai, Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations introduced Resolution A/62/L-43 Improving Global Road Safety.  The resolution, co-sponsored by 94 nations, called for a United Nations ministerial conference on global road safety.  General Victor Kiryanov, Head of the Russian Federation Road Safety Inspectorate, announced on behalf of his government that the Russian Federation will host the November 2009 conference.   Over 250 observers attended the General Assembly session and the post-briefing.  Ambassador Al-Hinai and General Kiryanov announced the passage of the resolution and took questions from attending stakeholders and media during the post-session briefing.  They were joined on the dais by Lord Robertson, Chairman of the Commission for Global Road Safety, Anthony Bliss, Lead Road Safety Specialist at the World Bank, Department of Energy, Transport and Water, Karla Gonzalez, Minister of Public Works and Transport for Costa Rica, Dr. Etienne Krug, Director of the World Health Organization Department for Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, and Michelle Yeoh, film actress and Global Ambassador for the Make Roads Safe Campaign.
Read the resolution, speakers' statements and press coverage of the event ►
Read the meeting report ►
 

Global Road Safety.org to Launch  Site in  Spanish

 We are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of globalroadsafety.org in Spanish for our Latin American partners and stakeholders and also to offer the next issue of The Global Road Safety Forum Newsletter, Winter 2008/2009 in Spanish.

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globalroadsafety.org en español

Nos complace anunciarles el lanzamiento de globalroadsafety.org en español.
Esperemos que el sitio Web esté en funcionamiento para finales de este año.
Les enviaremos un anuncio una vez que el sitio esté operativo.