Canada plans to create world's safest roads
· By: Drivers.com staff
· Date: 2001-04-15
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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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