Vision Zero: global road safety news from Brake

Donkey cart film wins storytelling award A road safety NGO in Botswana has won an African Road Safety Observatory’s Storytelling Award for a heart-warming film about its work to reduce the number of donkey carts being hit by motorised vehicles. The Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA) worked with communities along Botswana’s busy A1 highway to raise awareness, put up new road signs and fit reflective tape to donkey carts – the primary mode of transport for many rural inhabitants. Since the donkey cart initiative began, crashes involving donkey carts have fallen by more than 40%.  Read more

Brussels implements citywide speed limit The speed limit on all roads in Brussels, Belgium will be reduced to 30km/h by 2021, following mounting public pressure for action. Automated speed enforcement will be introduced at 30 high-risk sites across the city, backed by a speed-focused publicity campaign that will be launched by the Minister for Transport. The changes come thanks, in part, to a successful grassroots campaign for a 30km/h speed limit in the district of Schaerbeek and the wider recognition of a growing risk to pedestrians. Six pedestrians have been killed on roads in Brussels in 2019. #CommitToAct: Sign the People's Declaration The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety is calling for people to sign the People’s Declaration, asking governments to take action to prevent road death and injury. The declaration calls for: rigorous, enforced laws that put people before vehicles; speed and alcohol limits; mandatory car seatbelts/restraints; quality motorcycle helmets; strong mobile phone restrictions; safe roads and cars; and access to fast emergency and follow-up care. Greece and South Africa have both achieved more than 1000 signatures on the declaration, with the support of road safety organisations such as South Africans Against Drunk Driving and Efthita Rhode in Greece. Sign the People’s Declaration.