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ROAD SAFETY VISION 2010 TARGETS
Travel on Canada's roads is safer now than it has been for decades. However,
Transport Canada and its partners in the Canadian
Council of Motor Transport Administrators — an association of
government, public and private stakeholders — are working together to make road
travel even safer by implementing Road Safety Vision 2010. This vision is a
national plan aimed at making Canada's roads the safest in the world and
encompasses a broad range of initiatives that focus on road users, roads,
vehicles and carriers.
Road Safety Vision 2010 aims to reduce road fatalities and serious injuries
in Canada by 30 per cent during the 2008-2010 period compared to the 1996-2001
average figures. The Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators has
developed a number of specific targets designed to help reach this goal.
The Road Safety Vision 2010 targets include:
- increasing the rate of seatbelt and child restraint use to 95 per cent;
- reducing serious injuries and fatalities by 20 per cent (down from
approximately 925 and 160, respectively) among young drivers or riders
between the ages of 16 and 19;
- reducing serious injuries and fatalities by 20 per cent (down from
approximately 1,700 and 580, respectively) in crashes involving commercial
carriers;
- reducing serious injuries and fatalities by 30 per cent (down from
approximately 3,600 and 610, respectively) among pedestrians, motorcyclists
and cyclists; and
- reducing serious injuries and fatalities by 40 per cent (down from
approximately 6,600 and 1,400, respectively) on rural roads.
The plan also includes targets aimed at reducing the effects of high-risk
driving practices, including:
- reducing serious injuries and fatalities by 40 per cent (down from
approximately 2,400 and 900, respectively) of occupants not wearing
seatbelts; and
- reducing seriously and fatally injured victims by 40 percent (down
from 19 per cent and 33 per cent, respectively) in crashes involving a
drinking driver.
January 2006
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