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Road Safety

Road Safety. Students: Diana Luchian Loredana Groza Coordinator: Cristina Cornea (teacher) Simona Avramescu (headmaster). One-year progress update: Decade of Action for Road Safety 2013-2020. Everything and anything can be fixed except death. Be careful not pass illegally.

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Road Safety

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  1. Road Safety Students: Diana Luchian LoredanaGroza Coordinator: Cristina Cornea (teacher) SimonaAvramescu (headmaster)

  2. One-year progress update: Decade of Action for Road Safety 2013-2020

  3. Everything and anything can be fixed except death Be careful not pass illegally

  4. Road trafficdeaths by type of road user

  5. Other key data Worldwide vehicle ownership is forecast to double by 2020. Much of this growth will be in emerging markets. Road traffic injuries cost countries 1–3% of GDP. Only 15% of countries have comprehensive laws which address five key behavioural risks.

  6. Prevention works • Evolution of the number of annual road traffic deaths in metropolitan France, 1970-2009

  7. Cost benefit • Seatbelts (USA, Canada, Norway): 1 : 3-8 • Speed cameras (all EU): 1 : 5.9 • Motorcycle helmets (Norway, USA): 1 : 17 • Drinking and driving: 1 : 19-56

  8. Goal of the Decade To halt or reverse the predicted increase in road traffic fatalities around the world

  9. Somefuturedirections Additional, coordinated, multi-sectorial country support mechanisms More large scale evaluated interventions A few agreed priorities (e.g. legislative reform and enforcement) Vocal civil society Better informed media Inclusion of road safety in other agendas (e.g. Rio +20) Additional players

  10. Now we need to move this campaign into high gear and steer our world to safer roads ahead. Together, we can save millions of lives." • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

  11. FINISH Green for life! VetelSecondarySchool

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