Canada plans to create world's safest roads
By: Drivers.com staff
Date: 2001年04月15日
Transport Canada has released ambitious plans, called Road Safety Vision 2010, to reduce the number of road fatalities and serious injuries
in Canada by 30 per cent over the 1996-2001 average figures. The aim is to
make Canada's roads the safest in the world. Some of the targets noted in
the press release are:
- an increase from 90 to 95 per cent in the rate of seat belt use
- a 20 per cent reduction in serious injuries and fatalities of young drivers
or riders between the ages of 16 and 19
- a 20 per cent reduction in serious injuries and fatalities in crashes involving
commercial carriers
- a 30 per cent reduction in serious injuries and fatalities of pedestrians,
motorcyclists and cyclists
- and a 40 per cent reduction in serious injuries and fatalities on rural
roads.
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