The manual Strengthening road safety legislation describes methods and resources for enacting new laws or regulations or amending existing ones as part of a comprehensive road safety strategy. It recommends a stepwise approach to assessing and improving legislation on risk factors for road traffic injuries and on post-crash care. It could be used by countries to:
- improve understanding of applicable frameworks of legislation;
- review current national legislation and regulations and identify barriers to their implementation and enforcement;
- identify resources, such as international agreements, evidence-based guidance and recommendations on effective measures, to improve legislation; and
- prepare action plans to strengthen national legislation and regulations for the main risk factors and for post-crash care, including advocacy.