[sustran] Re: FW: Annual Death Toll of Global Accidents

Gerry Hawkes ghawkes at sover.net
Mon Jul 14 19:41:30 JST 2003


What are the estimates of non-human deaths and injuries?  "Road Kill" is a
common sight along our highways.

Gerry Hawkes
Eco Systems, Inc. & Bike Track R&D
796 Wayside Road Ext.
Woodstock, Vermont 05091

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-----Original Message-----
From: Barter, Paul <paulbarter at nus.edu.sg>
To: sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org <sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org>
Cc: aaltaai at erwda.gov.ae <aaltaai at erwda.gov.ae>
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: [sustran] FW: Annual Death Toll of Global Accidents


>Dear sustran-discussers
>
>I thought this would be of interest to many of you. I have obtained Ayad
>Altai's permission to share this.
>
>Also, apologies for sending a message last week in mime format - those
>of you using the digest version of the list would have seen only hex
>code. Sorry! As mentioned before, this list copes best with plain text
>only.
>
>Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ayad Altaai [mailto:aaltaai at erwda.gov.ae]
>Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 7:38 PM
>To: sustran at po.jaring.my
>Subject: Re: Annual Death Toll of Global Accidents
>Hi
>
>I had the opportunity to scan through your new publication
>"People-centered, Equitable and Sustainable Transport." I congratulate
>you on this excellent effort. My immediate comment is to do with
>reference to the total number of people killed in road accidents. In
>para. 4 of Basic Principles..... the report states a figure of 500,000
>people killed. Let me list the controversial figures that have been
>going around for many years:
>
>1.                   WHO reported that in 1993 the annual road accident
>fatalities were 895,000. This figure was quoted by WRI Report in 1996.
>2.                   Allan Ross (WB Consultant) presented an annual
>figure of 700,000 fatalities on 2 Feb 1999 at the launch of the GRSP
>Initiative at the World Bank in Washington D.C.
>3.                   After perhaps a year of work the GRSP issued a
>figure of about 1.1 million fatalities.
>4.                   The World recently stated that there the global
>death toll is 500,000 fatalities.
>5.                   Another department within the WB is stating that
>the annual figure of global road fatalities is 1.17 million.
>6.                   Years ago IATSA newsletter quoted the late Clinton
>Admin Transportation Secretary using a figure of 500,000 fatalities. I
>responded to the Editor-in-Chief that the figure was not valid.
>7.                   Finally if we accept the 500,000 fatalities for the
>globe, it means the world average is similar to Sweden or Japan. Think
>about it.
>
>The 50 million injuries mentioned in para 4 is much closer to reality
>that the fatality number. The debate on this number is much wider than
>the fatality figure. However, a number of organisations still use a
>range of 10-30 million. We should always remind the experts and the
>public that there is a high percentage of unreported road fatalities and
>injuries. This percentage reaches 50% in some countries, but never been
>reported.
>
>My humble conservative estimates for 2002 are as follows:
>
>Global Road Accident Fatalities: 1.2 million
>Global Road Accident Injuries: app 60 million.
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ayad Altaai
>General Coordinator
>Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI)
>Abu Dhabi
>UAE
>Phone: +971-50-668 2616
>Fax:     +971-2-681 4262
>
>
>
>



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