ICoRSI’s comments on WHO’s draft global targets for road safety risk factors

Abstract

A recent United Nations General Assembly resolution has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop voluntary global performance targets on key road safety risk factors. These targets will be used to track how well countries are doing in reducing deaths and injuries from traffic crashes. WHO has produced a draft set of country-level targets and invited feedback from state and nonstate actors. This document provides feedback from ICoRSI about the targets proposed by WHO.

Keywords:

• Road safety targets
• evidence-based interventions

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 The Independent Council for Road Safety International (ICORSI) is a not-for profit organization that provides independent and authoritative advice on global road safety policies by road safety scientists that have no financial conflicts of interest. ICoRSI aims to: (1) provide rapid, independent and evidence-based information on road safety policy and practice to policy makers and the public; (2) strengthen the capacity of safety professionals and policy makers to understand existing evidence and undertake new research; and, (3) facilitate capacity building for safety professionals and policy makers in the field of transportation safety. More information is available at www.icorsi.org.