Abstract
Each year over 1·3 million people are killed, and between 20 and 50 million more sustain life-changing injuries due to road traffic collisions.1 Road trauma accounts for a considerable proportion of global macroeconomic and health burden; much of which is unequally distributed, and disproportionally borne by low-income and middle-income regions.2 With many contributors to collision causality being potentially modifiable through changes to infrastructure, policy, car manufacturing, and driver behaviour, the responsibility for crash avoidance should be a shared proposition for the global community of road users.
Highlights
Each year over 1∙3 million people are killed, and between 20 and 50 million more sustain life-changing injuries due to road traffic collisions.[1]
Road trauma accounts for a considerable proportion of global macroeconomic and health burden; much of which is unequally distributed, and disproportionally borne by low-income and middleincome regions.[2]
The proportion of drivers involved in traffic collisions that are intoxicated by psychoactive drugs continues to increase.[4]
Summary
Each year over 1∙3 million people are killed, and between 20 and 50 million more sustain life-changing injuries due to road traffic collisions.[1]. Prescription medication use and crash risk: taking responsibility for a new global challenge
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