Global leaders must take urgent, concerted action to end road carnage
World leaders meet for the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety to recognize road safety as an urgent public health and development priority and advance actions to halve road deaths by 2030.
If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people globally, what would you say?
Malaria? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all up there, but no, it’s road crashes.
Cars have been around for over 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute, and nearly 1.2 million lives every year.
If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would…
