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The Safest Traveler Is The Well-Informed Traveler

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Issue

Everyday, 3,700 die on the roads of the world.

Vision

ASIRT, the Association for Safe International Road Travel, envisions a world in which no one dies or sustains life-altering injuries on the roads.

Mission

ASIRT’s mission is to improve the safety of travelers on the world’s roads through education and advocacy. 

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Thursday, November 14, Washington, DC

ROAD SAFETY NEWS

UNGA ADOPTS ROAD SAFETY RESOLUTION

“Improving global road safety” (document A/78/L.78) urges member states and relevant actors to scale up efforts to make road safety a political priority and ensure its relevance in the broader sustainable development agenda.

ASIRT 2024 Capitol Hill Briefing Panelists

CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON ROAD SAFETY

The June 2024 briefing, Protecting Overseas Employees and Travelers: Organizational Responsibility for Road Safety, was held on June 4 on Capitol Hill. View the agenda. Watch the recording of the briefing.

GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON ROAD SAFETY 2023

Learn more and download the report.

REMEMBERING ARON SOBEL

Watch Rochelle’s message as she marks 29 years since
her son’s death in a road crash in Turkey and urges continued action to save lives.

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Our Story

A bus driver speeds down the wrong lane of an ill-maintained, narrow road with a sharp curve and no guard rail. The road has long been on a government list of high crash sites in need of repair. The bus hits oncoming traffic and plunges down a deep ravine. Twenty-three people are killed, including Aron Sobel, a 25-year old medical student, two weeks before his graduation. He was volunteering at a hospital and then traveling in Turkey.

Aron died in 1995, but stories like his continue to occur daily, devastating families and communities.

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