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Whereas the current estimated monetary cost of motor vehi-
cle crashes worldwide is $518,000,000,000 annually, rep-
resenting between 3 and 5 percent of the gross domestic 
product of each nation; 
Whereas according to the World Health Organization, over 
90 percent of motorist-related deaths occur in low- and 
middle-income countries; 
Whereas according to the World Health Organization, motor-
ist-related deaths and costs continue to rise in these 
countries due to a lack of appropriate road engineering 
and injury prevention programs in public health sectors; 
Whereas the United States, United Nations, and inter-
national community should promote the improvement of 
data collection and comparability, including by adopting 
the standard definition of a road death as ‘‘any person 
killed immediately or dying within 30 days as a result of 
a road traffic crash’’ as standard definitions of injury, 
and the facilitation of international cooperation to de-
velop reliable data systems and analytical capability; 
Whereas it is critical that the international community sup-
port collaborative action to enhance global road safety 
and reduce the risk of road crash death and injury 
around the world by fostering partnerships and coopera-
tion between governments, private and public sectors, and 
within civil society, as well as relationships between the 
National 
Highway 
Traffic 
Safety 
Administration 
(NHTSA) and other national and international road safe-
ty authorities; 
Whereas the United Nations General Assembly adopted a res-
olution in 2005 designating the third Sunday of Novem-
ber as a day of remembrance for road crash victims and 
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their families, and calling on nations globally to improve 
road safety; 
Whereas the United States Congress passed H. Con. Res. 87, 
as well as S. Con. Res. 39, in the 110th Congress sup-
porting the goals and ideals of a world day of remem-
brance for road crash victims; 
Whereas the United Nations General Assembly adopted a res-
olution in 2008 highlighting the impact of global road 
safety issues, encouraging nations to take action to re-
duce road crash risks across the world, and creating the 
first global high-level conference on road safety, to be 
hosted by the Russian Federation in Moscow in Novem-
ber 2009; and 
Whereas the Ministerial Consultative Committee of the First 
Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow 
has drafted a declaration to designate 2010–2020 as the 
‘‘Decade of Action for Road Safety’’: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of a decade of 
action for road safety with a global target to reduce 
by 50 percent the predicted increase in global road 
deaths between 2010 and 2020; 
(2) urges the Obama Administration and the 
Department of State, in conjunction with the Na-
tional 
Highway 
Traffic 
Safety 
Administration 
(NHTSA), to set ambitious road traffic casualty re-
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duction targets for United States citizens traveling 
abroad; 
(3) encourages international harmonization of 
road safety regulations and good practices through 
accession to and implementation of related United 
Nations legal instruments, resolutions, and manuals 
issued by the United Nations Road Safety Collabo-
ration; and 
(4) urges the Obama Administration to take a 
leadership role at the First Ministerial Conference 
on Road Safety in Moscow and for the United States 
to work with nations around the world to achieve the 
goals and ideals of a decade of action for road safety 
and to reduce the impact of this health epidemic on 
the global community. 
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