Road traffic accidents - Commission for Global Road Safety urges action
08/06/2006
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The Commission for Global Road Safety has said that deaths from road traffic accidents are a global problem which needs to be addressed urgently.
A report published by the Commission found that 1.2 million people die every year as a result of a road traffic accident.
More young men die on the roads than any other group of the population.
It predicted that road deaths were likely to double in the next fifteen years.
The report - Make Roads Safe will be released in London this week.
The Commission encouraged western governments to increase aid for tackling the problem.
The Commission will present its findings to world leaders ahead of the G8 summit in St Petersburg in July.
The Commission's chairman, former Nato chief Lord Robertson, said global road safety needed to be on the agenda at future G8 summits.
Lord Robertson said that political leadership from G8 members and a significant increase in resources were needed to make roads safer.
The campaign is backed by Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, a member of the Commission, who has given his backing to improved road safety.
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