Road safety activities of the FIA Foundation

and opportunities for Latin America

Rita Cuypers

Director for Road safety

FIA Foundation

FIA Foundation objectives on Global Road Safety

Advocacy

• Reduce tragic toll of deaths and injuries

• Bring road safety high on the political agenda

Global road safety

• 1.2 milllion people killed every year on the roads world-wide

• 80% in low and middle income countries

• Estimated 50 million people injured and expected to rise with 60% by 2020 if no action taken

• Global cost: $ 518 billion each year

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Comparison traffic accident deaths per inhabitant and vehicle Latin

America vs Developed countries TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DEATHS PER INHABITANT AND PER VEHICLE IN LATIN

AMÉRICAN AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Country Deaths per 100 000 inhabitants Deaths per million vehicles

Argentina 23.56 1 280

Brasil 11.90 1 040

Chile 13.14 902

Paraguay 16.15 1 820

Uruguay 24.28 1 248

Colombia 19.15 2 959

Perú 16.28 3 548

México 18.04 1 467

Ecuador 15.63 3 059

Germany 10.69 191

U.S.A. 15.44 193

U.K. 6.12 150

France 13.94 249

Source: own, based on data provided by the Argentinian Institute for Highway Safety and Education and the GlobsalRoad Safety Partnership

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DEATHS PER INHABITANT AND PER VEHICLE IN LATINAMÉRICAN AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

How has Foundation contributed?

• 2002: Global Road Safety Steering Committee meetings • Feb 2003 Conference “Sharing Responsibility for Safer Roads”• New York, May 2003: UN Technical Road Safety Briefing• New York, Jun 2003: UN resolution on global road safety crisis• Geneva, Jul 2003, UNECE –Foundation calls for lead UN Road

Safety Agency• New York, Nov 2003: 2nd Resolution calling for debate on road

safety and resolution to be voted in April 2004• Geneva, Feb 2004, UNECE: Foundation proposes UNECE

Working Party on Road Safety as lead agency on road safety• Paris, April 2004: launch WHD “Road Safety is no Accident” • New York, 14 April 2004: 1st UN General Assembly on road

safety + WHO designated lead agency on road safety

World Health Day 2004

• First WHD on road safety• Officially launched in Paris on 7 April by Jacques

Chirac• Launch of the WHO/World Bank Report on road

traffic injury prevention• Foundation supported EU Charter signing event

in Dublin on 6 April, event with Michael Schumacher

• Major Club WHD activities: Brazil, Italy, United States, Japan, Hungary

WHO/World Bank World Report on Road Traffic

Injuries • Status of the world• Identification key risk factors:

– Speeding– Drink driving– Not using seatbelts, child seats– Not using helmets (e.g. Asia)– Visibility

• Recommendations:– Lead road safety agency– Evaluate problem and policy– Strategy and road safety action plan– Sufficient funding and resources– Concrete measures to prevent road traffic fatalities/injuries– International cooperation

UN Regional Commissioners meet for

first time• 29 September: first UN road safety coordination group

meeting• Hosted by WHO and UNECE• 1 October: WHO meets with Regional UN

Commissioners– Europe: UNECE– Latin America and the Caribbean: ECLAC (CEPAL)– Africa: ECA– South East Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)– Western Asia (ESCWA)

From Global road safety to regional road safety

• Possibly first Regional Ministerial/ Stakeholders Forum in Latin America

• FIA Foundation in discussion with CEPAL, Chile• Objectives:

– To hold Stakeholders Forum in the spirit of UN but on a regional level

– Define risk factors that are relevant to the region and recommendations

– Create a road safety community• Involvement Automobile Clubs

Why Regional Forum?

• Look at regional road safety experience and address problems such as:– Lack of road safety education / lack of experience – Lack of specialised road safety bodies– Inadequate highway markings– Inadequate road infrastructure design – no cycleways/pedestrian

crossings– Old car fleet / Lack of maintenance and technical inspections– Inadequate government policies and lack of funding– Lack of coordination between rescue agencies– Unprofessional driver licensing

• Opportunities to mobilize stakeholders led by automobile clubs• Which are the critical risk factors that should be focused on?

• Political will and concerted government action required

Example of targeted action: seatbelt campaigning

• Foundation Seatbelt toolkit developed – now model for UN

• Successful seatbelt campaign in Costa Rica• Seatbelt campaign in Hungary• UNECE Working Party for Road Safety –

Foundation participation in expert group on seatbelts and child seats with US, UK and Spain

Foundation actions of interest to Latin America

• Road safety:– Potential follow-up to Think before you Drive

campaign– Driver’s License standards

• Environmental:– UNEP Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles– Promotion of better air quality in developing countries– Environment Workshop for Latin American automobile

clubs

Automobile club involvement in the

Foundation (1)

• Policy Working Groups:– Road Safety and Mobility– Technical Affairs

• Regional coordinators (Africa, America/Canada, Central + Latin America and Caribbean, Europe, South East Asia)

• Your coordinators:– Road Safety and Mobility: Elliot Coen, ACCR

– Technical Affairs: Mario Romero, Automobile Club of Peru

• International Policy Forum– Annual event with theme– First IPF held in Baden bei Wien, Austria in 2004– Theme 2004: Children’s road safety– Potential follow up project:

Vision 2020 – safe roads for all childrenCampaign to raise global road safety on the international political agenda

Automobile club involvement in the

Foundation (2)

Motorsport safety

• 2004: FIA and Foundation created FIA Institute for Motorsport Safety

• FIA Foundation major funder of Institute

• All motorsport safety issues now dealt with by FIA Institute

• Website: www.fiainstitute.com