The United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety Week
The First Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 was officially proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2010. Its goal is to stabilize and reduce the forecast level of road traffic deaths around the world.
For many years road traffic crashes have been acknowledged by the United Nations as a considerable challenge to the achievement of health and development goals. According to the Global status report on road safety, road traffic crashes take the lives of nearly 1.3 million people every year, and injure 20–50 million more. More than 90% of road traffic deaths and injuries occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have only 48% of the world’s registered vehicles.
The United Nations has declared the years 2021 to 2030 as the new Decade of Action for Road Safety entitled “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The action plan sought to guide road safety efforts at both national and local levels. The document sought to save 5 million lives from death, 50 million people from serious injury, and 5 Trillion USD of funds within the decade.
In Nigeria, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) together with other stakeholders have lunched a 30km/hour speed limit within the cities, towns and village roads as a way to reduce road traffic crashes along those corridor.
It is important that has we celebrate the United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety Week we at Truckademy have just one message below to all road users.
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