UN urged to act on road deaths
Updated on 31 March 2008
The United Nations must take urgent steps to address the world's growing road deaths crisis, Nobel Peace Prize winners have said.
The latest forecasts show that unless action is taken, more than 20 million lives could be lost from 2000-2015, with a doubling of the annual death rate by 2030, the Make Roads Safe campaign said.
Former US president Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez - all Nobel Peace Prize laureates - wrote an open letter to the UN, urging the world body to call for a global ministerial conference on road safety.
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