Bus and Truck Occupants
◦ Buses with passengers, minibuses and trucks
frequently involved in crashes in low income
countries
◦ Presents a risk for ejecting passengers
◦ Are without crash protective features
◦ Poor stability when overloaded
Risk Factors – Inadequate
Law Enforcement
If traffic laws not enforced or perceived as not being enforced, likely not be complied with
Very little chance of influencing behavior.
Effective enforcement includes establishing, regularly updating, and enforcing laws at the national, municipal, and local levels
Should address the previously mentioned risk factors
• Including appropriate penalties
What can be done?
◦ Governments need to take action to address road safety in a holistic manner
◦ Requires involvement from multiple sectors that address the safety of roads, vehicles, and road users
◦ Designing safer infrastructure and incorporating road safety features into land-use and transport planning,
improving the safety features of vehicles, improving post-crash care for victims of road crashes, setting and
enforcing laws relating to key risks, and raising public awareness WHO Response
◦ Works in a multisectoral manner to provide technical support to countries
◦ Objective: Support Member States in road safety policy planning, implementation, and evaluation
◦ Collaborating with Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) 2015-2019 to reduce fatalities and
injuries from road traffic crashes in targeted low- and middle-income countries and cities
◦ In 2017, released Save LIVES
◦ A road safety technical package which synthesizes evidence-based measures
◦ Focuses on Speed management, Leadership, Infrastructure design and improvement, Vehicle safety standards, Enforcement of
traffic laws and post-crash Survival WHO Response
◦ Lead Agency for road safety in UN System
◦ Serves as the secretariat for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011– 2020
◦ Monitoring progress through global status reports
◦ WHO’s Global status report on road safety 2018 presents information on road safety from 175 countries.
◦ Provides an overview of the road safety situation globally
◦ Are the official tool for monitoring the Decade of Action