The adoption of a ‘default’ 20mph speed limit in built-up areas forms part of a new long term plan by the UK’s foremost road safety campaigning charity.Read more
Itās National Road Safety Week (Australia) and it comes on the back of a year in which 1,286 people died on Australian roads. The rising road toll – up 8.2 per cent for the year...Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
The deaths and injuries caused by car drivers are an everyday occurrence. This road violence has become normalised. We take it for granted as the price we have to pay to use our cars.Read more
Road traffic is the leading killer of children and young people worldwide – a sobering fact that will be at the forefront of a major United Nations event starting today.Read more
The newly-launched Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 is a major milestone in the continued effort to halve road deaths and injuries – many of which involve children – within...Read more
A huge reduction in traffic because of COVID lockdowns was a major factor in an ‘unprecedented’ fall in road deaths across the European Union – many of whom are children.Read more
Not a single child was killed on the roads of two Scandinavian capital cities, Oslo and Helsinki, in 2019.
Such welcome news is the culmination of steady decline in road-related deaths in recent years, thanks not...Read more