Every year, millions more road victims are added to the current toll of over 50 million killed and hundreds of millions injured since the first recorded road death in 1869. It is an actual pandemic, affecting primarily our vulnerable and our young, which, in addition to the trauma of injury and bereavement, has also a devastating economic impact for countries, communities and families.
At the end of the day, road safety is about people and saving lives.
Pausing to remember at UNHQ
From 10 to 16 November, stop by the exhibition at the curved wall of the first floor of the Conference Building at UN Headquarters in New York.
Pause to think about our families, friends, United Nations colleagues, and the people that we serve in our day-to-day work and who were seriously injured as a result of road traffic crashes, and to mourn those who lost their lives.
See the communications materials for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
