A Review of Global Road Accident Fatalities
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The problem of deaths and injury as a result of road accidents is now acknowledged to be a global phenomenon with authorities in virtually all countries of the world concerned about the growth in the number of people killed and seriously injured on their roads. In recent years there have been two major studies of causes of death worldwide which have been published in the ‘Global Burden of Disease’ (1996, World Health Organisation, World Bank and Harvard University) and in the ‘World Health Report –Making a Difference' (WHO 1999).
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