The report Confronting “Death on Wheels”: Making Roads Safe in Europe and Central Asia, released

The report Confronting “Death on Wheels”: Making Roads Safe in Europe and Central Asia, released after the first Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, reviews the size, characteristics, and causes of the road safety problem in ECA countries. The report will help bring into action the agreements reached during the conference held in Moscow on November 19-20, 2009 under the main theme Time for Action. The report finds that the magnitude of the road safety problem in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltics, and the Balkans is much higher than in Western Europe, even though their car fleet is smaller and the number of kilometers they travel by car is lower. The report provides compelling evidence on the economic and social consequences of the silent epidemic and suggests a range of policies and strategies and to confront and prevent “death on wheels”.

Download this book here-http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ECAEXT/Resources/258598-1258495120876/DeathonWheelsWeb.pdf