UN / GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY
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STORY: UN / GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 30 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN headquarters exterior
30 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, United Nations:
“The statistics on road safety are both daunting and disturbing. Nearly 1.3 million lives are claimed by road traffic accidents every year. As much as 3 percent of annual GDP in some countries is lost due to road accidents. And road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years. This trend can change. This trend must change.”
4. Wide shot, General Assembly
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, United Nations:
“As the tragic toll on our roads rises, the time for action from governments, societies and
communities is now. Safe mobility systems offer the promise of a safer, healthier and better future for everyone, everywhere. Let us seize this opportunity.”
6. Med shot, Abdulla Shahid leaving the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Road fatalities are closely linked to poor infrastructure, unplanned urbanization, lax social protection and health care systems, limited road safety literacy, and persistent inequalities both within and between countries. At the same time, unsafe roads are a key obstacle to development.
8. Close up, president of the General Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Traffic accidents can push entire families into poverty through either the loss of a breadwinner or the costs associated with lost income and prolonged medical care. And developing countries lose between 2 and 5 percent of GDP every year because of them.”
10. Med shot, General Assembly
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our goals are clear: cut road traffic deaths and injuries by half by 2030 and promote sustainable mobility with safety at its core. I count on you to raise attention and awareness and to foster more inclusive collaboration and closer coordination across sectors and stakeholders.”
12. Med shot, António Guterres leaving the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Simonson, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This is too high a price to pay for mobility. Putting safety at the core of our transport systems is an urgent moral imperative.”
14. Close up, president of the General Assembly
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Simonson, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“A 50 percent reduction in road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030 is an ambitious but achievable target. In fact, reductions of just 7 percent a year over the next decade will result in more than a 50 percent overall reduction. It is important for policymakers to be ever mindful that safe mobility is fundamentally a human right.”
16. Wide shot, General Assembly
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety:
“Yes, action and delivery are needed. The world is uniting to attack this invisible pandemic threath. Increase in funding for road safety in recent years is encouraging, but not enough.”
18. Med shot, Jean Todt speaking at the podium
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety:
“Even if we have made progress in certain countries, there remains an unacceptable discrepancy between what is happening in the developed world compared with the developing world. Over the last 45 years, Europe added 3 times more vehicles, but had 5 times fewer victims. In the developing word, both the number of vehicles and the number of victims is growing. Africa for instance, with only 2 percent of the word vehicles, has the highest road fatality rate in the world.”
20. Wide shot, General Assembly
STORYLINE:
A two-day High-level Meeting of the General Assembly kicked off today at the United Nations’ headquarters, in New York, with the goal of improving global road safety.
Opening the session on Thursday (30 June), Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, called the statistics on this issue “both daunting and disturbing.”
Nearly 1.3 million lives are claimed by road traffic accidents every year. As much as 3 percent of annual GDP in some countries is lost due to road accidents. And road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years.
“This trend can change. This trend must change,” the president of the General Assembly said.
For Shahid, “as the tragic toll on our roads rises, the time for action from governments, societies and communities is now.”
Urging Member States to “seize this opportunity”, the president said that “safe mobility systems offer the promise of a safer, healthier and better future for everyone, everywhere.”
Also speaking at the opening event, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, noted that “road fatalities are closely linked to poor infrastructure, unplanned urbanization, lax social protection and health care systems, limited road safety literacy, and persistent inequalities both within and between countries.”
At the same time, Guterres argued, unsafe roads are a key obstacle to development.
The UN chief said, “Traffic accidents can push entire families into poverty through either the loss of a breadwinner or the costs associated with lost income and prolonged medical care.”
At the same time, developing countries lose between 2 and 5 percent of GDP every year because of them.”
“Our goals are clear: cut road traffic deaths and injuries by half by 2030 and promote sustainable mobility with safety at its core”, added Guterres.
The UN chief concluded telling Member States he counts on them to “raise attention and awareness and to foster more inclusive collaboration and closer coordination across sectors and stakeholders.”
From the World Health Organization (WHO), Assistant Director-General Stewart Simonson recalled the fatality numbers saying they are “too high a price to pay for mobility.”
According to Simonson, “putting safety at the core of our transport systems is an urgent moral imperative.”
The Assistant Director-General believes that “a 50 percent reduction in road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030 is an ambitious but achievable target.”
“In fact, reductions of just 7 percent a year over the next decade will result in more than a 50 percent overall reduction. It is important for policymakers to be ever mindful that safe mobility is fundamentally a human right,” Simonson said.
The UN Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, was also at the event, saying that “the world is uniting to attack this invisible pandemic threath.”
“Increase in funding for road safety in recent years is encouraging, but not enough”, Todt said.
The Special Envoy noted some progress, but called out the “unacceptable discrepancy” between what is happening in the developed world compared with the developing world.
Over the last 45 years, Todt said, Europe added 3 times more vehicles, but had 5 times fewer victims. On the other hand, Africa, with only 2 percent of the word vehicles, has the highest road fatality rate in the world.
The meeting is convened under the theme of “The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery”, as agreed by Member States in General Assembly resolution 75/308.
Each year, road traffic crashes cause nearly 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries – making it the leading killer of children and young people worldwide.
Nine of every ten road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. One of four is a pedestrian or a cyclist.
TRT: 3:55
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 30 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN headquarters exterior
30 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, United Nations:
“The statistics on road safety are both daunting and disturbing. Nearly 1.3 million lives are claimed by road traffic accidents every year. As much as 3 percent of annual GDP in some countries is lost due to road accidents. And road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years. This trend can change. This trend must change.”
4. Wide shot, General Assembly
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, United Nations:
“As the tragic toll on our roads rises, the time for action from governments, societies and
communities is now. Safe mobility systems offer the promise of a safer, healthier and better future for everyone, everywhere. Let us seize this opportunity.”
6. Med shot, Abdulla Shahid leaving the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Road fatalities are closely linked to poor infrastructure, unplanned urbanization, lax social protection and health care systems, limited road safety literacy, and persistent inequalities both within and between countries. At the same time, unsafe roads are a key obstacle to development.
8. Close up, president of the General Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Traffic accidents can push entire families into poverty through either the loss of a breadwinner or the costs associated with lost income and prolonged medical care. And developing countries lose between 2 and 5 percent of GDP every year because of them.”
10. Med shot, General Assembly
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Our goals are clear: cut road traffic deaths and injuries by half by 2030 and promote sustainable mobility with safety at its core. I count on you to raise attention and awareness and to foster more inclusive collaboration and closer coordination across sectors and stakeholders.”
12. Med shot, António Guterres leaving the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Simonson, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This is too high a price to pay for mobility. Putting safety at the core of our transport systems is an urgent moral imperative.”
14. Close up, president of the General Assembly
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Simonson, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“A 50 percent reduction in road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030 is an ambitious but achievable target. In fact, reductions of just 7 percent a year over the next decade will result in more than a 50 percent overall reduction. It is important for policymakers to be ever mindful that safe mobility is fundamentally a human right.”
16. Wide shot, General Assembly
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety:
“Yes, action and delivery are needed. The world is uniting to attack this invisible pandemic threath. Increase in funding for road safety in recent years is encouraging, but not enough.”
18. Med shot, Jean Todt speaking at the podium
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety:
“Even if we have made progress in certain countries, there remains an unacceptable discrepancy between what is happening in the developed world compared with the developing world. Over the last 45 years, Europe added 3 times more vehicles, but had 5 times fewer victims. In the developing word, both the number of vehicles and the number of victims is growing. Africa for instance, with only 2 percent of the word vehicles, has the highest road fatality rate in the world.”
20. Wide shot, General Assembly
STORYLINE:
A two-day High-level Meeting of the General Assembly kicked off today at the United Nations’ headquarters, in New York, with the goal of improving global road safety.
Opening the session on Thursday (30 June), Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, called the statistics on this issue “both daunting and disturbing.”
Nearly 1.3 million lives are claimed by road traffic accidents every year. As much as 3 percent of annual GDP in some countries is lost due to road accidents. And road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years.
“This trend can change. This trend must change,” the president of the General Assembly said.
For Shahid, “as the tragic toll on our roads rises, the time for action from governments, societies and communities is now.”
Urging Member States to “seize this opportunity”, the president said that “safe mobility systems offer the promise of a safer, healthier and better future for everyone, everywhere.”
Also speaking at the opening event, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, noted that “road fatalities are closely linked to poor infrastructure, unplanned urbanization, lax social protection and health care systems, limited road safety literacy, and persistent inequalities both within and between countries.”
At the same time, Guterres argued, unsafe roads are a key obstacle to development.
The UN chief said, “Traffic accidents can push entire families into poverty through either the loss of a breadwinner or the costs associated with lost income and prolonged medical care.”
At the same time, developing countries lose between 2 and 5 percent of GDP every year because of them.”
“Our goals are clear: cut road traffic deaths and injuries by half by 2030 and promote sustainable mobility with safety at its core”, added Guterres.
The UN chief concluded telling Member States he counts on them to “raise attention and awareness and to foster more inclusive collaboration and closer coordination across sectors and stakeholders.”
From the World Health Organization (WHO), Assistant Director-General Stewart Simonson recalled the fatality numbers saying they are “too high a price to pay for mobility.”
According to Simonson, “putting safety at the core of our transport systems is an urgent moral imperative.”
The Assistant Director-General believes that “a 50 percent reduction in road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030 is an ambitious but achievable target.”
“In fact, reductions of just 7 percent a year over the next decade will result in more than a 50 percent overall reduction. It is important for policymakers to be ever mindful that safe mobility is fundamentally a human right,” Simonson said.
The UN Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, was also at the event, saying that “the world is uniting to attack this invisible pandemic threath.”
“Increase in funding for road safety in recent years is encouraging, but not enough”, Todt said.
The Special Envoy noted some progress, but called out the “unacceptable discrepancy” between what is happening in the developed world compared with the developing world.
Over the last 45 years, Todt said, Europe added 3 times more vehicles, but had 5 times fewer victims. On the other hand, Africa, with only 2 percent of the word vehicles, has the highest road fatality rate in the world.
The meeting is convened under the theme of “The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery”, as agreed by Member States in General Assembly resolution 75/308.
Each year, road traffic crashes cause nearly 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries – making it the leading killer of children and young people worldwide.
Nine of every ten road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. One of four is a pedestrian or a cyclist.
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