Chinese and foreign experts attending an international symposium on
traffic safety in Nanjing on have called for more scientific
methods to prevent road accidents.
More than 150 traffic administration and safety experts from China,
the united States, Britain, Canada, Japan, and Singapore
participated in the International Symposium on Increasing Traffic
Safety and Preventing Traffic Accidents, which was held in Nanjing,
capital of east China's
Jiangsu Province, Wednesday.
They agreed that the issue of road traffic safety has become
increasingly serious along with the global economic development and
social progress.
According to the meeting, some one million people were killed in
road accidents annually around the world, with 25 million
injured.
The World Health
Organization warned that road accidents may cause even more
casualties if no effective measures are taken.
The symposium participants believed that road accidents not only
harm the well-being of the people but also directly affect the
efficiency and quality of transportation.
(China
Daily November 29, 2001)