Road traffic crashes have remained a major cause of death globally. Every day, over 3500 people die on the roads. This figure amounts to over 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries each year – making it the leading killer of children and young people aged 5 to 29 worldwide. It is…
The Global Road Safety Partnership is delighted to confirm that Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has joined as a member. The NZTA’s position is that it is unacceptable for anyone to be killed or seriously injured while travelling or working on the land transport system. GRSP’s Chief Executive Dave Cliff said, “We…
The GRSP Signpost is our quarterly newsletter designed to share with you the important work both GRSP and other road safety actors are doing all around the globe. By sharing successes and challenges, we hope to encourage others to join the effort to reduce the unacceptable burden of road crash death and injury being placed…
The Road Policing Capacity Building programme of the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) has continued to expand over recent years with the generous support of Bloomberg Philanthropies. GRSP has also developed new road policing content including a crash investigation and reporting training programme with the support of our member the World Bank, that is being…
We wish to share with you the GRSP Annual Report 2020. This document paints in quite some detail the different GRSP programmes and their impact right around the world. We hope you will find it useful, informative and enjoyable. Please feel free to share it with your colleagues and peers should you see fit. You…
eDrivingSM, a Solera company, and leading global provider of digital driver risk management solutions, and the World Rescue Organisation (WRO), both members of the GRSP, have partnered to help prevent road deaths and injuries globally. The WRO is a not-for-profit, registered charity that was created to aid the development of rescue and medical personnel for…
The GRSP Signpost is our quarterly newsletter designed to share with you the important work both GRSP and other road safety actors are doing all around the globe. By sharing successes and challenges, we hope to encourage others to join the effort to reduce the unacceptable burden of road crash death and injury being placed…
The GRSP is delighted to announce that Professor Barry Watson has been elected Vice Chair of the Global Road Safety Partnership during the annual Steering Committee meeting that took place on June 22. Barry is a global road safety expert based at the Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q), Queensland University…
GRSP is pleased to provide our penalties guidance document. The levels of trauma that occur globally every day from preventable road crashes remains unacceptably high. This guide provides direction on how a suite of penalties can be used to deter road users from behaviours that either cause or worsen road trauma. Enforcement programmes supported by…
We are delighted to announce that, on June 22 at the annual Steering Committee meeting Bernd Marx of Shell was appointed the new Chair of the Global Road Safety Partnership. Mr. Marx takes over this position from Laurent Fourier, CEO Assistance Services at International SOS. In accepting the role, Bernd said: “I am very proud…
Welcome to our latest edition of ‘VIA Community’, a quarterly newsletter on VIA, an innovative global road safety education programme developed with the support of the Michelin Corporate Foundation and Total Foundation. By sharing successes and challenges, this newsletter will show how the community of VIA partners is contributing to the effort of reducing road…
It is with great sadness that the Global Road Safety Partnership was advised that Gayle Di Pietro, a long-standing and senior member of the team until 2016 passed away suddenly in Australia on April 25. Many of the GRSP team, close friends and colleagues share their sadness at Gayle’s passing and explain the impact that…
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PRESS RELEASE eDriving and Global Road Safety Partnership Launch “Triple Threat” Resources to Arm Organizations Against SPEEDING, DISTRACTION and FATIGUE High-Risk Behaviors Speeding contributes to about 30% of road deaths in high-income countries and about 50% of road crashes in some low- and middle-income countries.[i] Drivers using a mobile phone are approximately four times more…
The VIA Global Road Safety Education Programme is aimed at educating children between 10 to 18 years of age on the importance of road safety through four (4) structured learning modules. Its participatory approach and methodology can be applied universally, which encourages national adaptation to suit the local contexts and needs. To date, VIA is currently being implemented in 15 countries around the world; and the VIA Community will continue to expand. …
