More than sixty countries of the United Nations were represented at a Technical Briefing in New York to discuss global road safety. Organised by Oman’s Ambassador to the UN, Fuad Al-Hinai, the Technical Briefing was used to drive home hard facts: 3000 people are killed on the world’s roads every day and greater effort is needed from the international community. A number of leading experts and road safety campaigners attended the briefing, together with diplomatic staff from dozens of UN member states.
The FIA Foundation’s Director General, David Ward was on the platform to call for a more coordinated approach by UN agencies and governments, and to argue that road safety must become an acknowledged political priority before casualty reductions can be achieved. Ambassador Al-Hinai, who has won approval from the UN General Assembly for a Resolution which calls for action to counter a ‘Global road safety crisis’, pointed out that the topic of road safety had been largely ignored by the international community. “The thousands of deaths caused by road traffic accidents each year did not receive the media attention of a single aircraft crash”, he said.
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