World report on road traffic injury prevention: Recommendations

The World report on road traffic injury prevention provides recommendations on how to improve road safety. These recommendations should be considered as flexible guidelines for adaptation to local circumstances, and should be applied across a wide range of sectors and disciplines. These are the recommendations with accompanying text for each; 1) Identify a lead agency in government to guide the national road traffic safety effort, 2) Assess the problem, policies, institutional settings and capacity relating to road traffic injury, 3) Prepare a national road safety strategy and plan of action, 4) Allocate financial and human resources to address the problem, 5) Implement specific actions to prevent road traffic crashes, minimize injuries and their consequences and evaluate the impact of these actions, and 6) Support the development of national capacity and international cooperation. Also see rec #s 7480, 7507, 7562 and 7975. Available at: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/road_traffic/world_report/en/index.html