Improving Global Road Safety

A/RES/66/260View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Global road safety crisis, published in 2011.

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10 versions · 2004–2024

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13 topics

Civil Society Data Collection Emergency Medical Services Financial Assistance Focal Points International Cooperation International Instruments Motor Vehicles Public Information Regional Commissions Road Traffic Safety Regulations Traffic Safety

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20 operative paragraphs

Welcomes official national and local launches of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 in over one hundred countries around the world, regional launches for the Decade as well as other global events;

Commends Member States that have developed national plans that are in line with the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020,3 and encourages Member States that have not yet developed these plans to do so, paying special attention to the needs of all road users, in particular pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users, as well as issues related to sustainable mobility;

Invites Member States that have not yet done so to nominate, as appropriate, national focal points for the Decade of Action;

Calls upon Member States to implement road safety activities relating to each of the five pillars of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action, namely, road safety management, safer roads and mobility, safer vehicles, safer road users and post-crash response;

Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to adopt and implement comprehensive national road safety legislation and regulations on the major risk factors and improve implementation through social marketing campaigns and consistent and sustained enforcement activities;

Encourages Member States to improve and strengthen road safety data collection and management systems through the standardization of definitions and reporting practices and investments in multisectoral road traffic crash surveillance and analysis;

Encourages the implementation of new car assessment programmes in all regions of the world in order to improve availability of consumer information about the safety performance of motor vehicles;

Invites Member States to improve, where appropriate, their road management systems and introduce road safety audits both for new construction projects as well as road safety assessment programmes of the existing networks;

Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to consider becoming contracting parties to and to implement the United Nations road safety-related legal instruments, as well as to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and further encourages States Parties to the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic, the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic and the 1968 Convention on Road Signs and Signals, and to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to continue to implement the provisions thereof;

Encourages Member States to improve and strengthen pre-hospital, trauma and rehabilitation care, through the adoption of a national Emergency Medical System telephone number, capacity-building and the provision of adequate and appropriate equipment;

Invites Governments to take a leading role in implementing the activities of the Decade of Action, while fostering a multisectoral collaboration of efforts that includes academia, the private sector, professional associations, non-governmental organizations and civil society, including national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, victims’ organizations and youth organizations, and the media;

Reaffirms the importance of addressing global road safety issues through international cooperation and by strengthening collaboration between Member States and civil society to build capacity and raise awareness in the field of road safety and to continue raising awareness through the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims;

Requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions, in cooperation with other partners in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and other stakeholders, to continue the activities aimed at supporting the implementation of the objectives of the Decade of Action;

Also requests the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions to organize activities during the second United Nations Global Road Safety Week, within their resources and with voluntary financial assistance from stakeholders, in collaboration with other members of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, to raise global, regional, national and local awareness about road safety issues, with particular attention to vulnerable road users;

Encourages Member States, civil society and the private sector to participate in the second United Nations Global Road Safety Week by hosting national and local events;

Invites Member States, international organizations, development banks and funding agencies, foundations, professional associations and private sector companies to consider providing adequate and additional funding to activities relating to the Decade of Action;

Invites all interested relevant stakeholders to explore new and innovative funding modalities to support and collaborate in national efforts to implement the Global Plan for the Decade of Action, particularly in low- and middle-income countries;

Takes note, in this context, of the important role of the Global Road Safety Facility, the Road Safety Fund established by the World Health Organization and the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, the Bloomberg Philanthropies and other private and public funding mechanisms to support the implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action;

Invites Member States and the international community to take road safety into consideration in the future planning of the relevant important international agendas, such as efforts to achieve sustainable development;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session the item entitled “Global road safety crisis”, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at that session on the progress made in improving global road safety.

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