Road traffic crashes claim an estimated 1.19 million lives and injure up to 50 million people every year. Over 90% of fatalities occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have less than half of the world’s vehicles.
Every person around the world deserves access to safe streets. However, many of the world’s roads lack important safety elements that could help prevent injuries and deaths. In addition, low- and middle-income countries often lack the resources and support they need to tackle key road safety threats.
Solutions exist to prevent the tragic loss of life from crashes, but road safety doesn’t receive the attention and resources it deserves. That is why the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) is committed to improving road safety laws and implementing evidence-based interventions in low- and middle-income countries and cities around the world.
The initiative works to improve enforcement, support safer streets and safer mobility, create mass media campaigns, and strengthen data collection and analysis. Using a comprehensive approach, the initiative works with governments, civil society and communities to prevent road crash deaths and injuries.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety accelerates progress by focusing work around these five priority activities:
Since 2007, when the work first began, our efforts are projected to save nearly 312,000 lives.
The initiative’s work saves lives and prevents injuries by focusing on five main areas: weak and inadequate road safety laws, weak data surveillance systems that don’t capture all road crashes and associated injuries/deaths, limited enforcement of existing laws and insufficient communications campaigns to raise public awareness, streets designed solely for vehicles that don’t take into consideration pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vulnerable road users, and minimal or nonexistent vehicle safety standards.
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