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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Sept 19, 2016 21:58:46 GMT 9.5
Road traffic deaths are not accidents, expert tells major safety conference Julie Power Tampere, Finland: The day after 25-year-old American Aron Sobel died with 22 others in a multi-vehicle crash in Turkey, a caption in a major newspaper said the "Angel of Death was waiting for them around the curve". But Mr Sobel's death had nothing to do with fate, his mother, Rochelle Sobel, said on Sunday from her home in Maryland in the US. And there was nothing "accidental" about the 1.25 million people - 3400 a day - who die in crashes around the world each year, said Etienne Krug, the World Health Organisation's director of non-communicable diseases, disability, violence and injury prevention and its top expert on road safety. Around the world, road traffic crashes are the ninth biggest killer every year, and are scheduled to become the seventh by 2030. They are also the leading killer of 15- to 29-year-olds globally, Dr Krug said at the opening of Safety 2016, a major international conference of injury prevention experts in Finland. Click Here to Read More:
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