Who should be primarily responsible for road safety on a national and international level?

This is an important question. At present road safety is seen as everybody's responsibility and therefore nobody is being held accountable. Clearly, for a problem that globally causes about 1.2 million deaths and injures 10-15 million people a year, responsibilities should be assigned.

Road safety is everybody's responsibility—the road users, governments, donor organisations, academia, and non- governmental organisations. However, what is needed is a commission or agency in each country that will coordinate a …