A first ever High Level Meeting on Road Safety has heard calls for action and funding, as ministers and officials met at UN headquarters in New York.
Chile has announced it will include NCAP safety ratings on labelling for new vehicle models, the first country in the region to do so. The move follows years of testing and advocacy for labelling in the country by New Car Assessment Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (Latin NCAP), which was supported by the FIA Foundation.
A new initiative targeting vehicle speeds around schools has launched in Kitwe, Zambia, supported by the FIA Foundation’s Child Health Initiative and local partners Zambia Motor Sport Association and the Zambia Road Safety Trust.
New Global NCAP car-to-car crash test results, supported by the FIA Foundation, is demonstrating the double standards that apply to vehicle safety across national borders ahead of the first UN General Assembly High Level meeting on Road Safety.
The FIA Foundation hosted its ‘Design for Life: for people & planet’ Forum in London, with policymakers, partners and supporters, as part of a celebration of its twentieth anniversary.
Almost 12 million serious injuries to children and youth can be prevented between now and 2050 if proven road safety interventions are implemented across 77 low- and middle-income countries, according to new modelling by the Victoria University Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in a new study commissioned by the FIA Foundation.
FIA Foundation Chairman Lord Robertson of Port Ellen has convened leading global donors, international organisations and young advocates to advance plans for a Global Forum for Adolescents.