UN approves a Decade of Action to combat global road safety crisis

The United Nations has agreed that 2011-2020 will be the global Decade of Action for Road Safety, in a landmark victory for the FIA Foundation’s Make Roads Safe campaign. The UN has acted in the face of a rapidly escalating road safety crisis. Each year, 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads and the death toll is set to rise dramatically over the next decade unless action is taken. Developing countries are particularly badly affected, accounting for 90% of global fatalities.
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