WHO / CHAN ON ROAD SAFETY

A big gap still separates high income countries from low and middle income ones where 90 percent of road traffic deaths occur in spite of having just 54 percent of the world’s vehicles, according to the World Health Organization’s Global status report on road safety 2015. WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:41
• Production Date: 19 October 2015
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: MARGARET CHAN
• Subject Topical: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA; EUROPE
• MAMS Id: 1474679
• Parent Id: 1474679
• Alternate Title: unifeed151019b

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STORY: WHO / CHAN ON ROAD SAFETY
TRT: 01:41
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 19 OCTOBER 2015, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND/RECENT

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1. Wide shot, exterior World Health Organization Headquarters

19 OCTOBER 2015, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Med shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization:
“Let me say how delighted I am to launch the global status report on road safety 2015 together with Michael Bloomberg.”
4. Close up, Global Status Report on Road Safety
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization:
“Road traffic crashes claim 1.25 million lives a year. They are the number one, number one killer among those aged 15 and 25 years of age.”
6. Close up, camera operator
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization:
“Infrastructure remains a critical challenge for safer roads, in addition better laws are needed on speed, drinking and driving, and the use of motorcycle helmets, seat-belts and child restraints.”
8. Med shot, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization:
“Low and middle income countries account for 90% of road traffic deaths, despite having just about 54% of the world’s vehicles. Europe has the lowest death rates, Africa the highest. Last month I was in New York where heads of states adopted the Agenda for Sustainable Development. The agenda includes road safety target of reducing by 50% the number of road traffic deaths by 2020.Ladies and gentlemen, this is truly an ambitious target, but also a critically important one.”
10. Med shot, press room

Storyline

A big gap still separates high income countries from low and middle income ones where 90 percent of road traffic deaths occur in spite of having just 54 percent of the world’s vehicles, according to the World Health Organization’s Global status report on road safety 2015.

At a press conference today (19 Oct), WHO Director General, Margaret Chan announced the launch of the global status report.

The report found that road traffic crashes claim 1.25 million lives a year. “They are the number one, number one killer among those aged 15 and 25 years of age,” the Director General said.

She added, “Motorcyclists are particularly vulnerable, accounting for 23 percent of all road traffic deaths, pedestrians account for 22 percent and cyclists for percent of all road traffic deaths. Infrastructure remains a critical challenge for safer roads, in addition better laws are needed on speed, drinking and driving, and the use of motorcycle helmets, seat-belts and child restraints.”

Chan also pointed out that, “Low and middle income countries account for 90 percent of road traffic deaths, despite having just about 54 percent of the world’s vehicles. Europe has the lowest death rates, Africa the highest.”

She continued by saying, “Last month I was in New York where heads of states adopted the Agenda for Sustainable Development. The agenda includes road safety target of reducing by 50 percent the number of road traffic deaths by 2020. Ladies and gentlemen, this is truly an ambitious target, but also a critically important one.”

Michel Bloomberg’s, Bloomberg Philanthropies funded the global status report. He was a three-term mayor of New York City.