Road Safety Declaration, declaration, declaration.


After a first Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in November 2009 in Moscow with the slogan “Time for Action” and a second one in Brasilia November 2015 with the slogan “Time for delivery” we are now heading to number three in Stockholm 18/19 February, exactly in one month.

This should be the start for a new decade 2020-2030. The Slogan: A decade of Action and Delivery.
What is missing in the Stockholm declaration?

If we look back to both the Moscow and Brasilia declarations there was a much bigger space dedicated to the 5th Pillar, the Post-Crash Response.

And not to forget the Brussels NGO declaration where 70 NG´s of Road Victims and Road Safety were united in 2009 for a common declaration with their own views and recommendations:

https://fevr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/NGO-Declaration-dark-cover-single-pages-FINAL.pdf
 With Luxemburgs Minister Francois Bausch in Brasilia 2015

In the Brasilia declaration was also mentioned the WDoR (World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims) endorsed in October 2015 by a UN resolution.
PP24. Recognizing the commitment of States and civil society to road safety by observing the annual World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.


Moscow declaration: 
Pillar 5: Strengthen the provision of prehospital and hospital trauma care, rehabilitation services and social reintegration through the implementation of appropriate legislation.
Brasilia declaration: 
PP25. Recognizing the progress made by some countries in providing universal access to health and integral care in the pre-hospital, hospital, post-hospital and reintegration phases to road traffic crash victims ….

OP25. Strengthen pre-hospital care, including emergency health services and the immediate post-crash response, hospital and ambulatory guidelines for trauma care, and rehabilitation services, through the implementation of appropriate legislation.

OP26. Provide early rehabilitation and social reintegration, including in the world of work, to injured people and persons with disabilities caused by traffic crashes and comprehensive support to victims of road traffic crashes and their families.  
Road Victims Declaration: Definitively in the Stockholm Declaration this is the missing link


What lessons should we learn from the DoA for Road Safety 2011-2020 for the next decade after Stockholm High Level Ministerial Road Safety Conference.

The Stockholm Conference is supposed to welcome key achievements to date of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 where deaths were expected to reach 1.9 million by 2020 if no actions were taken. The ambition was to ”stabilize” and then reduce deaths by about 50 percent of the forecast level, or approximately 900.000 deaths, by 2020.

Lesson 1: Maybe speaking about stabilizing was wrong and not ambitious enough to motivate high level stakeholders.

Lesson 2:  involve victim NGO´s and use the WDoR (wdor.org) to advocate for a faster reduction of their numbers and don´t forget the serious injuries, families, friends and rescue teams, police etc who often have to deal with difficult situations at crash spots.
Lesson 3: up to you

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