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