International Road Safety Campaign

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RoadSafe supports International campaign for safer roads

Former NATO Chief Lord Robertson of Port Ellen and an international
Commission including 7 times Formula One world champion Michael
Schumacher today issued a stark warning that failing to act on road
deaths – which are second only to HIV/AIDS as a global killer of young
men – will jeopardise key development goals on health and poverty.

Launching The Make Roads Safe Report chairman of The Global Road Safety
Commission Lord Robertson said:

“In 2005 millions of people, and the leaders of the G8, responded to the
call to Make Poverty History. Yet many of the gains for development won
in 2005 will be at risk if action is not taken to reverse the growing
epidemic of road traffic death and injury, with its terrible human and
economic cost. Every day 3000 people are killed in road crashes. We know
that many of these deaths are preventable. But we need political
leadership from the G8 and a significant increase in resources if we are
to Make Roads Safe.”

RoadSafe is pleased to support the campaign to promote the messages of
the report, and encourages all readers of RoadSafe News to do the same.

• The main objective of the campaign, led by the FIA Foundation and the
RAC Foundation, is to put global road safety on the G8 agenda and secure
political and financial commitments for the recommendations proposed in
the Make Roads Safe report;

• The campaign also aims to raise awareness amongst young people around
the world of the global, developmental problems of road safety. This
will also help to raise awareness about and acceptance of domestic road
safety amongst a key high risk age group in terms of road crashes in
industrialized countries: men in their late teens and early 20s;

Download your copy of the report and earn more and support the campaign
by logging on to http://www.makeroadssafe.org with an online petition
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