Un Decade Of Action For Road Safety 2011-2020

EDM number 1131 in 2010-12, proposed by Richard Burden on 02/12/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Roads.

That this House endorses the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety which has the goal of stabilising and then reducing global road deaths by 2020, potentially saving up to five million lives; thanks Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP for their pro bono work designing the `Tag' global symbol for the Decade of Action; notes the World Health Organization's estimate that 1.3 million people will die on the world's roads in 2010; recognises that 90 per cent. of such deaths occur in developing countries; further notes that the lack of attention to road safety impacts on delivery of the Millennium Development Goals, not least through the burden on health systems and the million children each year denied life or an education because they are killed or seriously injured on the roads; congratulates the Department for International Development on its commitment, pledged at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, to support the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility in ensuring safe investment in all overseas aid-funded road programmes; further notes the UK's current position as the best performing nation in the world, measured by deaths per 100,000 population; deplores the fact that six people are still tragically killed on the country's roads each day; urges the Department for Transport to provide an ambitious UK strategic framework for further casualty reductions through the Decade of Action; and calls on the Government to play a full and positive role in the global Decade of Action, beginning with the official launch on 11 May 2011.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.