The United Nations has marked the first Global Road Safety week with a number of events and presentations around the world including, the EU road safety day on 27th April. The week had been called for by a UN General Assembly Resolution and its main theme was youth and road safety.
In 2004 the theme of World Health Day had been road safety and the UN road safety week built upon the Global and a European report from 2004 with a new report focusing on youth. Alongside this publication there has also been issue specific publications on helmet wearing, drink driving, a road injury prevention training handbook.
Many of contributions featured calls for better road infrastructure rather than action to reduce speeds, the main cause of accidents (for example the comment piece in the Guardian Newspaper by Michael Schumacher). Calls to adequately address this most pressing road safety priority were left to the European association of traffic Police (TISPOL) who coordinated speed campaigns in 22 countries.
HEAL and ECSA call for tax reductions of child passenger restraints
On this occasion, the Health and Environment Alliance and the European Child Safety Alliance (an EPHA member) are calling for rapid reductions for taxes of child passenger restraints for children during Global Road Safety Week.
(See press release and factsheet attached)
