• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SafeRoads.in

Road Safety News.

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
  • Gallery
  • News
  • Volunteer / Sponsor
    • Terms & conditions

Global Road Safety Week: UN Urges Drivers to Slow Down

December 11, 2019 by saferoads Leave a Comment

NEW DELHI: Every four minutes a life is lost due to road accidents in India. In 2015, more than 1.5 lakh people lost their lives due to road accidents in India. According to any road safety experts, the single most important contributor to road fatalities around the world is poor speed selection, commonly interpreted as the use of inappropriate vehicle speeds, over speeding or exceeding lawful speed.

Urging citizens across the globe to drive slow, UN has kick-started its fourth edition of Road Safety Week campaign.

“Speed is at the core of the global road traffic injury problem,” WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said in a news release issued on the eve of the week, which runs from 8 to 14 May.

With this year’s theme being Save Lives: #SlowDown, the UN health agency’s findings suggest that a 5% cut in average speed can result in a 30% reduction in the number of fatal road accidents.

Source: Economic Times

Filed Under: Road Safety

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Most Popular

  • Stuck in Traffic Snarls? It can Cause Higher Chronic Stress, Sleep Deprivation
  • Accidents Due to Fog: Over 50 Vehicles Pile Up, One Killed as Two Trucks Collide in Punjab
  • India Needs to Invest $109 Billion to Halve Its Road Crash Fatalities in Next Decade: World Bank Report
  • 6 of a Family Killed, 2 Injured in Accident
  • Every Hour 17 People Die in India Due to Road Accidents; Uttar Pradesh Most Dangerous – Infographic
  • One killed in Telangana as biker tries to evade checkpost, accident caught on CCTV
  • 100% Spurt in Road Accidents Makes Bengaluru Slip Nine Positions in 2018
  • U-Turn to be Established Near Rob Road in Nehru Nagar
  • Road accidents on national highways account for 48% in Assam
  • Nukkad Natak on Road Safety a Big Hit

Footer

About SafeRoads

Saferoads aims to educate, and create awareness about road safety . Our mission is reduce the number of accidents and reduce human and economic losses arising out of preventable causes.

Useful Links

About Us
Activities
Contact

Never Miss a Story

© Copyright 2019 · Safe Roads