Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Notes:
It is important to probe the risks faced by different road user groups, assisted by available data
from highway agencies, police, hospitals and other sources. It is also important to locate and
rank those sections of the road network with the highest concentrations of deaths and injuries,
across the hierarchy of urban roads and the hierarchy of inter-urban roads. Where data are
deficient or simply unavailable extensive consultations with relevant groups may be required to
identify user groups most at risk and to locate hazardous sections of the network. The best
starting point for these discussions is within the health sector, particularly with the emergency
services staff that attend to crash victims in the pre-hospital phase.
The issue of acceptable and achievable levels of safety and related responsibilities and
accountabilities must be addressed at the highest agency andministerial levels, especially across
the transport and health sectors. In this dialogue it is important to identify and discuss the scale
of the national health loss incurred by road crashes, compared to other causes of death and
injury in the country concerned.