With a huge increase in deaths caused by traffic accidents expected to occur by the year 2000, this paper outlines a general framework for developing traffic safety strategies. Comments are made on some of the institutional arrangements which are likely to enhance awareness of traffic injury at the political level and lead to effective action in both the public and private sectors. Strategies considered for reducing traffic injury include exposure control, crash prevention, behaviour modification, injury control and post-injury management. The choice of strategy will depend on the conditions prevalent in an individual nation. A number of general principles are identified however including the setting up of an agency responsible for traffic safety, an interest in the subject on the part of the private sector and international exchange of information.
Samenvatting