Post by tcrashfx on May 13, 2007 5:04:44 GMT -5
One in Three American Deaths Overseas Due to Car Crashes According to New Study
Make Roads Safe Offers Tips for Travellers as Part of United Nation's First Global Road Safety Week, April 23-29
Make Roads Safe Offers Tips for Travellers as Part of United Nation's First Global Road Safety Week, April 23-29
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Make Roads Safe - The Campaign for Global Road Safety, today released a first-of-its-kind analysis of State Department data that ranks road crashes as the leading cause of death for healthy Americans traveling abroad.
In observance of the first United Nation's Global Road Safety Week, April 23-29, Make Roads Safe released the report titled, "Road Crash Deaths of American Travelers: The Make Roads Safe Report; An Analysis of U.S. State Department Data on Unnatural Causes of Death to U.S. Citizens Abroad (2004-2006)". The report revealed that road traffic crashes cause twice as many deaths as each of the next greatest risks which were homicides and other accidents.
"When we travel, we protect ourselves with vaccines and we're careful about what we eat and drink, but the real hidden danger is being killed on the road," said Dr. Bella Dinh-Zarr, North American Director of Make Roads Safe and author of the new report.
Today's report shows that nearly one-third of the reported deaths of healthy Americans overseas are due to traffic crashes. The majority of the deaths (77%) were in low- and middle- income countries. Among road crashes by type, the greatest number occurred in automobiles (73%) followed by motorcycles (12%), and pedestrians (7%).
We can't even drive "Over there"!