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Road Deaths A Global Epidemic, Says Report
Thu Jun 8, 11:50 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Road deaths are a global epidemic on the scale of malaria and tuberculosis and world leaders must do more to address the issue, a report said on Thursday.

The Commission for Global Road Safety, headed by former NATO chief George Robertson, said 1.2 million people were killed and 50 million injured every year worldwide in traffic accidents.

More than 85 percent of the casualties were in low and middle income countries, with road deaths second only to AIDS as a global killer of young men.

The Commission said the Group of Eight, made up of the world's richest countries, must back a $300 million, 10-year action plan to address the issue in developing countries.

Robertson said it needed the same attention from the G8 as was given to the "Make Poverty History" campaign, which lobbied political leaders to write off billions of dollars of debt owed by the world's poorest nations.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060608/hl_nm/road_deaths_dc ...

[Octavius Hite]

I read this and then thought, while I was reading this 10 people died of AIDS or war in Africa, this is whats wrong with people in the west, give me a break.