Why the UN Road Safety Strategy is important to UNDSS? Road traffic crashes are a leading cause of death and serious injury to United Nations personnel. Road traffic crashes involving UN vehicles are ...

Road crashes claim 1.35 million lives every year, 93% of them in developing countries. Road fatalities and injuries are a human tragedy and a serious threat to socioeconomic development. The World ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tanya Mohn reports on road safety, sustainable transport, and cycling. Over the last ten years, Finland reduced road deaths by a ...

Norway received the 2025 European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) award for outstanding progress in road safety. Norway continues to be the safest country in Europe for road users, and is a model of ...

A road safety initiative in the northwest is harnessing young people's passion for cars, equipping them with hands-on mechanical work experience and road safety education. Originally set up at the ...

New global and country-level estimates suggest that routinely wearing helmets and seat-belts, obeying speed limits and avoiding drunk-driving could save between 347,000 and 540,000 lives worldwide ...

Over the past decade, the World Bank has supported various partner countries in improving road safety. The Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF), a multi-donor Trust Fund managed by the World Bank, has ...

Inspired by Japan's long-term success in reducing road fatalities, Thailand is entering a critical period of learning and reform in road safety, a message underscored at the 3rd Thailand Road Traffic ...

To ensure safer road traffic across Europe, the Council today adopted a new law amending the 2015 directive on cross-border exchange of information on road-safety-related traffic offences. The new ...