5. Transport safety: Entering the decade of action for road safety!
Transport can have direct negative impacts on human health. In the ECE region more
than 120 thousand individuals are killed in road crashes every year, causing, in addition
to human suffering, overwhelming costs running into billions of dollars amounting in
some countries between 1 and 3% of GDP
.
Road safety depends on driver behaviour,
infrastructure quality and vehicle quality. Only by considering all these elements can road
safety be improved. Over the last decades road safety has been improving in many
regions, but work for safer roads should never stop, each person killed on roads, is one to
many!
Figure 5.1
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