Road Safety Week

[Ciro Pabón]

The UN Global Road Safety Week, 23-29 April 2007, tries to make young people aware that cars are more dangerous than firearms.

http://www.who.int/roadsafety/week/en/

Drink OR Drive. Buckle up. Race on your local track. Use a helmet on a motorcycle. Don't let children to cross the street alone. Ask your local authorities to mark accident-prone sites! Don't become another black star...

Black Stars we paint on the pavement at the sites where people dies in traffic accidents: there is one for each dead person in Bogotá's streets. Let's learn from other's mistakes... Ask your local authorities to start a similar program!


Oh, and take your driving to the next level: invest on a course to learn to race. It may save your life and it's fun. Racing is probably the only sport that teaches you to be cool. Only stupid people and bad racers overspeed.

[manchild]

cars are more dangerous than firearms

That sublimes what I've already mentioned in on of the previous topics. I support that idea 100% and hope that in the future UN will be able to impose new rigid traffic related laws to all of its members.

Recently there was a terrible bus crash in Colombia and as any other traffic accident it goes almost unnoticed in news because "it is normal to have such accidents" and when that student recently killed similar number of people that it is described in media as huge tragedy (which it is, but why bus crash tragedy involving similar number of victims isn't???)

I really don't understand WHY people make a difference between violent deaths depending on means that cause them. Bus crash, lunatic with a gun, bomb, plane crash... what's essential and only important thing in common to all is that innocent people died violently.

That's at least how I see it and hearing how traffic accidents are considered almost as "normal" everyday events really makes me think that this civilization is going in bad direction.

When that lunatic killed those kids in UK years ago UK banned all weapon. When did you hear that after traffic accident involving many casualties some country cut speed limit in half or imposed any measure as drastic as banning weapons?

We're facing obvious hypocrisy based on fact that traffic = money and money is more important to any government than general safety.