OVER 270,000 PEDESTRIANS KILLED ON ROADS EVERY YEAR – UN AGENCY

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OVER 270,000 PEDESTRIANS KILLED ON ROADS EVERY YEAR – UN AGENCYNew
York, May 2 2013 6:00PMMore than 270,000 pedestrians lose their
lives on roads each year, the United Nations health agency
<"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2013/make_walking_safe_20130502/en/index.html">said
today, calling on Governments to improve traffic safety.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), pedestrian
casualties account for 22 per cent of the total 1.24 million road
traffic deaths. To draw attention to the needs of pedestrians and
generate action to protect them, WHO organized the Second UN Global
Road Safety Week, which kicks off on 6 May with events in 70
countries.

"The Second United Nations Global Road Safety Week offers an
opportunity to highlight the myriad challenges that pedestrians face
around the world each and every day," said WHO Assistant
Director-General of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Oleg
Chestnov.

"We are all pedestrians, and Governments should put in place measures
to better protect all of us. This will not only save lives, but create
the conditions needed to make walking safe. When roads are safe,
people will walk more, and this in turn will improve health and
protect the environment," he said, echoing the theme of Road Safety
Week, "Make Walking Safe."

Pedestrians are among the most vulnerable road users. Studies indicate
that males, both children and adults, make up a high proportion of
pedestrian deaths and injuries. In developed countries, older
pedestrians are more at risk, while in low-income and middle-income
countries, children and young adults are often affected. Children and
adults with disabilities suffer higher rates of injury as pedestrians
compared to their non-disabled peers.

"More than 5,000 pedestrians are killed on the world's roads each
week. This is because their needs have been neglected for decades,
often in favour of motorized transport," said the WHO Director of the
Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, Etienne
Krug. "We need to rethink the way we organize our transport systems to
make walking safe and save pedestrian lives."

WHO and its partners also released a road safety manual for
decision-makers and practitioners, which promotes a combining
enforcement, engineering and education measures such as: adopting new
laws to reduce speeding, curb drinking and driving, decrease mobile
phone use, improve roadway lighting and put in place infrastructure
that separates pedestrians from traffic.

The agency also contributes to achieve the goal of to the Decade of
Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. Launched in May 2011 by Governments
across the world, the Decade of Action aims to save 5 million lives
and seeks to build road safety management capacity in countries,
improve the safety of roads and vehicles, enhance the behaviour of all
road users and strengthen post-crash care.May 2 2013 6:00PM
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