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Road crashes account for an estimated 1.35 million deaths and 50 million injuries worldwide each year, with over 90 percent of the reported deaths occurring in developing countries.1 Road crashes represent a major burden on health systems and other services, and in昀氀ict pain and su昀昀ering on communities and individuals. The combined injury and social costs of crashes pose a heavy 昀椀nancial burden on the economy. According to World Bank statistics, in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) alone, deaths and serious injuries cost economies 1.7 trillion dollars and over 6.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).2 Governments around the world are working to reduce road-related trauma and have agreed to halve the number of deaths occurring on the roads by 2030.3 There are known, cost-e昀昀ective solutions that can be implemented to address this global crisis.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that road safety is a prerequisite to ensuring healthy lives, promoting well-being, and making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020, o昀케cially proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in March 2010, had a goal to stabilize and reduce the forecasted level of road tra昀케c deaths around the world. To continue this global focus on improving road safety, the UN General Assembly has adopted a new resolution on global road safety, proclaiming the period 2021–2030 as the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety with the goal to reduce road tra昀케c deaths and injuries by at least 50 percent by 2030