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Hooked on Road Safety: Youth Declaration for Road Safety

On April 24, 2007, young people from more than 100 countries adopted the Youth Declaration for Road Safety

The Youth Declaration for Road Safety was agreed by the delegates to the World Youth Assembly, who commit to taking practical measures to improve road safety and call upon other young people to do the same. The declaration calls on all young people to "stand up and participate in local and national campaigns and programmes" and urges adults to do more. The declaration also calls for more political will at national and community level to tackle road safety. It urges schools and universities to teach young people about safety, bartenders to serve alcohol responsibly, media to report more widely and more responsibly about the lack of road safety, and celebrities and the entertainment industry not to glamourize speed and to wear seatbelts and helmets.

The Youth Declaration for Road Safety is produced by an organization not subject to the Common Look and Feel Standards and is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) only as a service to visitors to the Transport Canada Web site. The size of the file is 2,089 KB and will download in approximately 9 minutes 54 seconds on a 28.8kbps connection and may be viewed using Version 3.0 or higher of the Adobe® Acrobat Reader. This reader may be downloaded free of charge by visiting the Adobe® web site. If more information about the Youth Declaration for Road Safety is required, please visit the United Nations Global Road Safety Week Web site.

Date modified:
2009-09-02