This information was released by Global Alliance for NGOs for Road Safety.
The 2023 report launched by the World Health Organization, and the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety calls for greater investment in evidence-based interventions that put people at the center to halve road deaths and injuries and provide safe, affordable, accessible, sustainable mobility by 2030.
According to the report, 1.19 million people are killed on the world’s roads every year, a decrease of 5% since 2010. “In that time, 10 countries achieved at least a 50% reduction in road deaths and 85 achieved reductions between 10-49%, proving that the 2030 road safety targets are possible if governments invest in the right actions.”
The report notes that some of the greatest reductions were made “where the safe system approach – which puts people and safety at the core of mobility systems - was applied.
However, in 66 other countries, road deaths increased, the report states, saying that the Alliance observes that “too many governments are still not taking road safety seriously” enough. “The time for excuses is over,” the report says. “We call for stronger, more urgent action.”
