‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’ – that is a central feature of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety’s Strategic Plan 2024-2030.Read more
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
Children remain one of the most vulnerable groups of road users, and so the LEARN Guide is a vital new resource of information and support aimed at supporting road safety advocates across the world.Read more
The safety of children and all vulnerable road users goes under the spotlight this week at the annual gathering of The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety.Read more
The introduction of a new ‘default’ UK national speed limit of 20 miles-per-hour (mph) – and with it a safer environment for children – could become a reality, according to a draft government report.
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Cities’ innovative ideas to make the roads safer for children and young people are once again recognised in the latest European mobility awards.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
In May 2021 a B-double truck mounted a kerb when turning a corner in Melbourne, injuring five pedestrians. In February 2020 a drunk driver drove onto a footpath in Sydney, killing four children and injuring...Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
Since its beginning in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has become a global movement to prevent road fatalities and serious injuries by undertaking a Safe System approach to road safety.Read more
|Comment|author: WRI Center for Sustainable Cities
Children’s road safety lessons and cycling tests were significantly affected by the initial COVID lockdowns and school closures, according to a new multi-agency report. Read more