Managing the critical risk factors

The 2015 Global Status Report on Road Safety provides a snapshot of the road safety situation globally, highlighting the gaps and the measures needed to best drive progress.

A Systems Approach:
The World Report advocates an approach which ensures that road systems are designed to accommodate and compensate for human vulnerability and frailty. This requires an understanding of the system as a whole and the interaction between its elements, and requires the identification of priorities and potential for action to address the five main risk factors:

drinking and driving
the non-use of safety belts and child restraints
inappropriate and excessive speed
the non-use of helmets
the lack of safe roads

It is further recommended that action is taken to manage key groups including vulnerable road users, those who drive for work and victims of road crashes.