Citation

Int. J. Inj. Control Safe. Promot. 2019; 26(1): 1-2.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/17457300.2018.1562641

PMID

30702023

Abstract

The end of the year 2018 saw the launch of the Global Status Report on Road Traffic Safety by the World Health Organisation. The report noted the continued increase in deaths and injuries in road traffic crashes. According to this report, 1.35 million deaths have been reported in road traffic crashes in 2016. This shows the enormity of the challenge faced by the safety community as the decade of safety action 2011–2020 draws to an end. The report focuses on the progress that has been made by the member countries; however, the progress has not occurred at a pace fast enough to meet the challenges of rapid urbanization and motorization. The authors of the report note, ‘At this rate, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target 3.6 to halve road traffic deaths by 2020 will not be met’. Let us pose this challenge to our young researchers. Can we think of processes and strategies that can achieve the SDG target 3.6? What implication does it have in Asia, Latin America and Africa, which continue to face the burden of road traffic injuries? The efforts require collaboration from different stakeholders, more importantly from researchers in different settings. We are happy to report results of such collaboration in the recent years.

Out of the fifteen essays in the present issue, there is a wide range of collaboration and geographical spread. Five of the fifteen presentations in the present issue have contributors from America working solely or in conjunction with those from institutions in other countries such as Nigeria, the Philippines, China, Pakistan, Serbia, Malaysia, Sweden, Iran, Ghana, Belgium, Bangladesh, Brunei, Australia, Tunisia, Spain and South Africa ...

Language: en