Pendemic on our roads!

摘要

Jean Todt, president of, Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and special envoy of the UN secretary general on road safety spoke about the next steps in tackling the plague of road accidents. "Every year, on the world's roads, almost 1.3 million people die. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), road traffic crashes are now the eighth leading cause of death globally, and the leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years. "The one thing brought home to me on countless occasions in the past five years is that to effectively press for change on a worldwide scale requires us to speak from a global platform. I believe that coordinating the setting up of this global platform is what the role of special envoy on road safety was created to achieve.