ccording to estimates, road traffic accidents account for approximately 3000 deaths on a daily basis, and 50 million injuries and 1.2 million deaths each year.1 In low-income and middle-income countries, road traffic accidents account for 85% of deaths and 90% of annual disability.2 Casualties of this magnitude are a serious problem throughout the world and create a significant impact on societ...

1. ABSTRACT This paper will focus on changes to the implementation of road safety inspections in Ireland following the requirement, under EU Directive 2008/96/EC on Road Infrastructure Safety Management (2008), for the establishment of periodic road safety inspections (RSI) of existing roads, along with safety impact assessments, high accident concentration ranking and road safety audits (RSA)....

Road traffic injuries as a man-made calamity impose great burden on poor people and needs to be addressed through social justice and end of poverty. Pointing out that around 186,300 children under the age of 18 are killed every year, and much more are injured, urgent need to work on road safety measures will be revealed. Although preventing road traffic crashes from occurring should be the main...

The facts around current and projected levels of road trauma eed little introduction: in 2012 road injury was the ninth leadng cause of worldwide deaths (WHO, 2014) and it is estimated hat by 2030 it will be the fifth (WHO, 2009). Its presence in the orld Health Organisation’s top ten causes of death gives a clear ndication of the scale of the problem: currently road injury stands lone within t...

Road traffic injuries are an ongoing global health burden and cause more than 1.2 million deaths per year. In Europe, the annual socioeconomic impact accounts for €130 billion. In 2011, the United Nations set a special focus on road safety and injury prevention by the proclamation of the “Decade of Action for Road Safety.” This initiative focuses mainly on developing countries. In Germany, many...

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