FIRST UN GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY WEEK 23rd TO 29th APRIL 2007

Early day motion 1269, tabled 16 April 2007 by Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 59 members.

That this House welcomes the first United Nations (UN) Global Road Safety Week, which acknowledges road safety as a development issue with road deaths predicted to double in low income countries over the next 15 years; appreciates the achievements of the charity group RoadPeace in putting the problems of road death and injury on both the UK and international agendas, including through its representation of road crash victims on the UN and World Health Organisation Road Safety Working Groups, its promotion of evidence based interventions to reduce the impact on lives and the environment, such as black boxes in vehicles, and its work to stop crashes being tolerated as `accidents', instead of the avoidable events that they are, too many of which involve criminal behaviour; and calls on the Government to support the aims of UN Global Road Safety Week.

Signatures by party: Labour 31, Liberal Democrat 17, Conservative 5, DUP 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1.