In November, the Fleet Forum participated in the First Ministerial Conference on Global Road Safety.  Hosted by the Commission for Global Road Safety and the Make Roads Safe Campaign, the event saw more than 1000 delegates from all over the world converge on Moscow to tackle road safety.

In his opening statements, Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, said: “Road safety is one of the most serious problems of international development requiring immediate action as a priority”.   While Lord Robertson, Chairman of the Make Roads Safe Campaign, added that the world needs to wake up to the scale of the crisis. “We are looking at a death rate equivalent to 10 jumbo jet crashes every day. You can be sure that if 10 planes crashed today, tomorrow, the next day – and indeed every day – there would be a huge global outcry."

This public outcry from government leaders has helped raise further the importance of addressing the growing global road safety crisis.

To learn more about the Moscow Ministerial Conference click here.