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Worldwide effort to make roads safer now underway

May 11, 2011

The Decade of Action for Road Safety — the United Nations plan to reduce the number of road traffic fatalities around the world by 2020 — begins May 11, 2011. Each day, 3,500 people are killed by traffic fatalities worldwide, amounting to 1.3 million deaths each year. According to the World Health Organization’s website, “The objectives [of the launch] are to: • draw attention to the Decade and more generally to the impact of the global … [Read more...] about Worldwide effort to make roads safer now underway

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