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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Scottish police are joining colleagues around the world this week to highlight the importance of road safety, especially when it comes to young rouad users.
Thirty-two young Scots have been killed on the nation’s roads in the first three months of 2007 while road accidents kill nearly 1.2 million people a year world wide.
"The United Nations Global Road Safety Week will be an important opportunity for the Scottish Police Service and its partner agencies to raise awareness of important road safety issues,particularly to young road users," said Chief Constable John Vine, chair of the Road Policing Business Area for the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS).
The UN's week-long campaign, "Road Safety Is No Accident", starting on April 23, is deisnged to highlight the fact that road safety happens not by accident but through the deliberate efforts of society, government and non-government.
The campaign will specifically target drunk and drug drivers, speeding and the use of seatbelts.
"While road safety throughout Scotland has improved dramatically during the past decade, the number of younger drivers and child passengers killed or seriously injured is still unacceptably high,"said Vine.
"In the first three months of this year, 32 young people under 25 have been killed on our country's roads."
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