The decade for Road Safety was launched world over yesterday aiming at reducing the fatalities owing to road accidents.
The World Health Organizations Representative to Sri Lanka Dr Firdosi Rustom Mehta said that, 6 people die and nearly 50 people suffer severe injuries in Sri Lanka on a daily basis due to road accidents and that over 50 percent of this number is made up of vulnerable people such as pedestrians, cyclists and road side vendors.
"The United Kingdom, The United States of America, France and Germany record the lowest number of road accident casualties every year but we are confident that the Sri Lanka statistics will improve under the guidance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa" he said.