Between 2000 and 2015 road accidents would cause 20 million deaths, 200 million serious injuries and leave more than one billion people killed, injured, bereaved or left to care for a victim.
Next week's meeting will follow research by the World Heath Organisation which forecast that between 2000 and 2015 road accidents would cause 20 million deaths, 200 million serious injuries and leave more than one billion people killed, injured, bereaved or left to care for a victim.
The WHO predicted that by 2020 road deaths would become the number three killer, behind heart disease and suicide, although Aids is now a much bigger threat than when that forecast was made. The biggest killer
· Road crashes are already the number one killer of young people aged 10-24
· The cost to developing countries is put at $100bn a year, their total aid budget
· In Britain 3,172 people died in road accidents in 2006
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