No Accident: Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads

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n o t e s Notes Notes to Prologue 1 M.Peden,R.Scurfield,D.Sleet,D.,Mohan,A.Hyder,E.Jarawan,& C.Mathers, eds. (2004), World report on road traffic injury prevention (Geneva: World Health Organization). 2 S. Massinon (2012, 17 October), Police call highway accident that killed Calgary woman “an act of God,” Calgary Herald. Retrieved from http://www .calgaryherald.com/Update+Police+call+accident+that+killed+Calgary+ woman/7363376/story.html 3 Peden, Scurfield, Sleet, Mohan, Hyder, Jarawan, & Mathers, eds., World report on road traffic injury prevention. 4 D. Sperling & D. Gordon (2009), Two billion cars: Driving toward sustainability (New York: Oxford University Press), 4–5. 5 Peden, Scurfield, Sleet, Mohan, Hyder, Jarawan, & Mathers, eds., World report on road traffic injury prevention. 6 Transport Canada (2011), Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics (Ottawa: Unpublished raw data provided by J. Hurley and P. Gutoskie 27 January 2011). 7 Statistics Canada (2013, October 3), Table102-0540 – Deaths, by cause, Chapter XX: External causes of morbidity and mortality (Transport Accidents V01 to V79; Assault X85-Y09; Legal intervention and operations of war Y35-Y36), age group and sex, Canada, annual (number), CANSIM (database). Retrieved from http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1 020540&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=49&tabMode=dataTable &csid= 8 Canadian Institute for Health Information (2011), National Trauma Registry , Minimum Data Set (NTR-MDS) and Comprehensive Data Set (NTRCDS ) (Toronto: Unpublished raw data provided by P. Sidhom 22 February 2011). 277 278 n o t e s 9 Transport Canada (2013), Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics extracted from National Collision Database (NCDB) for 1997–2008 [PVT1] (Ottawa: Unpublished raw data provided by V. Johanson and M. Marth 28 May 2013). Data computed based on major injuries and fatalities and comparing the three-year period 1997–1999 to the three-year period 2006–2008. 10 Public Health Agency of Canada (2012), Injury in review: Spotlight on road and transport safety (Ottawa: Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division ), 7. Retrieved from http://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived .html?url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/aspc-phac/ HP15-14-2012-eng.pdf 11 Transport Canada (2013), Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics extracted from Traffic Accident Information Database (TRAID) for 1984–1991 and National Collision Database (NCDB) for 1992–2008 [PVT1] (Ottawa: Unpublished raw data provided by V. Johanson and M. Marth 28 May 2013). 12 L. Francescutti, personal communication, 18 May 2012. 13 Peden, Scurfield, Sleet, Mohan, Hyder, Jarawan, & Mathers, eds. (2004), World report on road traffic injury prevention. 14 Sixty-fourth United Nations General Assembly (2010), General Assembly adopts text proclaiming decade of action for road safety (2011–2020), aimed at reducing traffic-related deaths, injuries [Press release]. Retrieved from http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/ga10920.doc.htm 15 World Health Organization (2013), United Nations Road Safety Collaboration , First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/roadsafety/ministerial_conference/en/index.html 16 World Health Organization (2010), The UN tackles road safety [Press release]. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2010/ traffic_injuries_media_20100303/en/index.html 17 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Transport Forum (2008), Towards zero: Ambitious road safety targets and the safe system approach (Paris: OECD). 18 F. Wegman & L. Aarts, eds. (2006), Advancing sustainable safety: National road safety outlook for 2005–2020 (Leidschendam, the Netherlands: SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research). Retrieved from http://www.sustainable safety.nl/index_uk.htm 19 F. Wegman, personal communication, 5 December 2012. 20 Vision Zero Initiative (2013), Concept. Retrieved from http://www.vision zeroinitiative.com/en/Concept 21 C. Tingvall, personal communication, 23 March 2012. 22 Vision Zero Initiative (2013), The human factor. Retrieved from http://www .visionzeroinitiative.com/en/Concept/The-human-factor/ 23 C. Tingvall, personal communication, 23 March 2012. 24 European Union (2011), White paper: Roadmap to a single European transport area—towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system n o t e s t o c h a P t e r o n e 279 (COM/2011//0144 final). Retrieved from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/ LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2011:0144:FIN:EN:HTML 25 Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) (2009), Toward zero deaths. Every life counts: A 10-point plan for reauthorizing the federal Highway Safety Program. Retrieved from http://www.ghsa.org/html/issues/files/pdf/ GHSA10ptslowB.pdf 26 City of Seattle (2011), Be super safe, Seattle: The...