A/RES/68/269
United Nations
Distr.: General
29 April 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 12
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 April 2014
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.40 and Add.1)]
68/269. Improving global road safety
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 57/309 of 22 May 2003, 58/9 of 5 November 2003,
58/289 of 14 April 2004, 60/5 of 26 October 2005, 62/244 of 31 March 2008,
64/255 of 2 March 2010 and 66/260 of 19 April 2012 on improving global road
safety,
Recalling also the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,
held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, and its outcome document,
entitled “The future we want”, 1 in which Member States took into account road
safety as part of their efforts to achieve sustainable development,
Recalling further the special event to follow up efforts made towards
achieving the Millennium Development Goals, convened by the President of the
General Assembly on 25 September 2013, and its outcome document, 2
Having considered the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report on
improving global road safety 3 and the recommendations contained therein,
Noting that road traffic injuries are a major public health and development
problem that has a broad range of social and economic consequences which, if
unaddressed, may affect the sustainable development of countries and hinder
progress towards the Millennium Development Goals,
Expressing its concern that the number of road traffic deaths still remains
unacceptably high, with an estimated 1.24 million lives lost in 2010, and that only
7 per cent of the world’s population is covered by adequate laws that address all
behavioural risk factors, including the non-use of helmets, safety belts and child
restraints, driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, inappropriate and
excessive speed and the inappropriate use of cellular telephones, including texting,
while driving,
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1
Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution 68/6.
3
A/68/368.
2
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