With 1.3 million annual road deaths, UN wants to halve number by 2030 

The program is a key part of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 and was discussed, connected Friday, at an lawsuit supporting the High-Level Meeting connected Global Road Safety astatine the General Assembly successful New York. 

Opening the discussion, the President of General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, said that the satellite needs to code this “unnecessary and tragic load connected families, communities and economies.”   

“Road accidents are entirely preventable, and our precedence indispensable beryllium precisely that, to instrumentality preventive measures”, he continued.  

Necessary action 

Mr. Shahid highlighted the value of the Global Plan, but warned that “unless it is implemented, it is thing much than a program of action.” 

Looking ahead, he said implementation by nationalist and section governments will require two main elements: financing and the engagement of applicable actors.    

With a notable backing spread successful astir countries, 90% of roadworthy deaths happen in low and middle-income countries. 

For Mr. Shahid, this means that achieving the targets will necessitate accrued enactment to these countries.  

Road postulation crashes are also the starring slayer of children and young radical worldwide, aged five to 29.  

As things stand, they are acceptable to origin a further estimated 13 cardinal deaths and 500 cardinal injuries during the adjacent decade. 

Personal stories 

During Friday’s event, Member States heard from families who mislaid loved ones, politicians that led the way, grassroot younker moving connected advocacy programs, and some authorities and non-governmental organizations.  

For the President of the General Assembly, “each is simply a communicative that volition foster greater knowing and cognition connected however we tin amended prosecute connected planetary roadworthy safety.” 

Mr. Shahid invited Member States, civilian societies, and the planetary assemblage to use these exchanges “as an accidental to physique corporate commitments and strengthened partnerships”.   

“Global roadworthy information is simply a shared work that indispensable beryllium prioritized and integrated”, helium argued.   

For him, achieving safety would contribute to the accomplishment of Sustainable Development Goals under education, health, and the environment, among others.   

The High‑Level Meeting on the topic will be held in July next year, nether the taxable “The 2030 skyline for roadworthy safety: securing a decennary of enactment and delivery”.