In the year of 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank cooperatively hurled the World crash on road circulation injury preclusion. The report delineated the foremost dangers for road traffic injuries, and suggested a number of intercessions that republics could instrument to progress the safety of their streets. On the other hand in the same year the United Nations General Assembly implemented a determination on cultivating global road safety. Five years far along, WHO distributed the Global status, report on road safety 2009, which on condition that the first valuation of the road protection condition at global, local and countrywide levels.
The report shows that an estimated 127 260 persons were killed on the Region’s roads in 2010, constituting 10% of the world’s estimated deaths (about 1.24 million) in the same year, with a regional fatality rate of 21.3 per 100 000 population. This compares to a global rate of 18.03 per 100 000 population and means the Eastern Mediterranean Region has the second highest road traffic fatality rate in the world, after the African region (at 24.1 per 100 000 population). Moreover, some of its countries have the highest road traffic fatality rates in the world. The Region is also unusual in having the highest rates of road traffic fatalities among its high-income countries, at 21.7 per 100 000 population. This is more than double the global rate of 8.7 per 100 000 population for high-income countries.
More than 75% of all road traffic deaths in the Region occur among males, while 60% occur in the productive age group of 15 to 44 year-olds. The majority of road traffic deaths are among the economically active, with potentially significant implications for development due to lost productivity and income.
The estimated proportion of people injured in a road traffic crash who incur a permanent disability as a result of the crash was available in only five countries and ranged from 1.2% in West Bank and Gaza Strip to 9% in Qatar. However, variations in the definitions and standards used make comparisons between countries difficult.
