Jun 26 2024
IRU welcomes new UN General Assembly road safety resolution
Safety drives all aspects of IRU's work. For decades, IRU, the world road transport organisation, and its members have worked together to make commercial road transport safer for everyone.
The small percentage of accidents that involve heavy-duty vehicles are mainly due to human error (85%), three-quarters of which are caused by other road users.
In addition to human lives, accidents also affect transport operations. Disrupted transport supply chains, immobilised vehicles, higher insurance premiums and the cost of repairs all impact transport services.
In September 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030, with the ambitious target of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.
To support the decade of action, the UN General Assembly adopted yesterday the “improving global road safety” resolution.
The new resolution urges UN Member States and other road transport actors to speed up and intensify efforts to achieve the decade of action and make road safety a political priority and maintain its importance in the broader sustainable development agenda.
It also emphasises the importance of strengthening global and regional cooperation initiatives to aid the exchange of information on training, capacity building and enforcement activities.
IRU supports all road safety measures that effectively target the main causes of accidents involving professional vehicles. The organisation’s road transport certification and standards activities centre around four areas: technical assistance, the IRU Academy, IRU Examiner, and IRU RoadMasters. Read more
Source: IRU