Paying tribute to those killed in road crashes and taking a united stand to reduce road deaths were among the key themes of an international conference organized by the Polish Government just after the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on 22 November. In 2009 alone, 4,572 people were killed in road crashes…
On the walking bus, feet replace tires. Children do not sit, they walk in pairs behind an adult “driver” who leads the route between school and home. The walking bus is used by millions of children around the world each day. It is a method of transport which promotes physical exercise, supports efforts for a…
Ibrahim Osman first realized the full extent of the road safety crisis 12 years ago while working on the 1998 World Disasters Report, the yearly chronicle of humanitarian crises published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). That year, the report identified road safety as a leading global killer and…
At a service station on a national highway in South Africa’s Guateng province, five men in wheelchairs wait for the next customer to pull in for a quick fill-up. Wearing bright orange bibs, holding clipboards and approaching motorists with a friendly smile, they appear to be members of a club or a group of some…
Set up vehicle stabilization! Can you tell me where you are in pain? Let me know if the condition changes! Make sure that her head does not move! What is the entrapment? We’ll need four of us to remove the roof! If that does not work we go to plan B! Short and clear questions,…
Representatives of the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) met with road safety stake holders in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria in August 2010 to discuss the establishment of a national road safety partnership between the public sector, (led by the Nigerian Federal Road Safety Commission), private sector organizations and civil society. The 2009 WHO Global Status…
Young people interested in road safety are at the heart of an 18-month project that aims to jump-start transport research into speed management. The STARS project, as it’s called, encourages students around Europe to run a local speed-management action to reduce speeding through infrastructure projects or communication projects (awareness campaigns, etc.). STARS is developed by…
The beginning of a new road safety campaign in the city of Lviv in western Ukraine coincided with the handover of five speed-detection radars from the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia. “On behalf of the Global Road Safety Partnership and the European Union project for the Integration of Ukraine into the Trans-European Transport Networks…
You cannot miss it. The last thing you want to see on your way home from an after-work drink with your office mates. A Victoria Police “Booze Bus”, parked on the shoulder of a nondescript highway off-ramp with its flashing lights and customized floodlight illuminating a cold Melbourne night. Warning signs tell you to “prepare…
In April this year, 40-year-old Balázs Tokár was elected president of GRSP/Hungary. A representative for Shell on the GRSP Hungary board since 2007, he has been involved in a number of joint projects within GRSP, including “Traffic playground” with a mini Shell station that is still operational in Budapest and used by local school classes….
More than 100 people from around the world came to Rio de Janeiro as part of activities surrounding GRSP’s annual general meeting in June. The venue was the Challenge Bibendum, the biggest international event in the automobile industry, of which GRSP was a leading road-safety participant. The meeting marked the first time that mayors and…
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization recently featured a comprehensive seat-belt campaign developed by the Sakhalin Road Safety Partnership (SRSP) that has dramatically increased seat-belt use and yielded evidence of reduced traffic-related injury. Entitled “Buckling up is ‘cool’ on Russian Island,” the article describes how a fatal crash in 2004 led to creation of …
