European Red Cross
Road Safety Campaign
This
website is dedicated to the fourth European Red Cross Road
Safety Campaign which was run in 19 Europena countries between April 2007 and June 2008.
Over
57% of all road victims die in the first minutes following
a crash, before the arrival of the emergency services. It
shouldn’t have to end this way: First aid is a safe
and simple way to save lives in an emergency. Each of us can
learn, and be prepared to immediately give the right help
to the victims of a crash.
The
Red Cross, as a leading provider of first aid, endeavours
to make first aid education compulsory at different stages
of life and promotes the road safety culture in Europe.
Since
2001 the European Union National Red Cross Societies have
delivered three pan European road safety campaigns
(
2005;
2003;
2002).
Through these campaigns, the Red Cross reached millions of
people, informing them on preventive road safety measures
and teaching them simple first aid techniques in case of accidents.
Some
of the many outcomes of these campaigns are available on this
website: the
Good Practice Guide
for road safety and first aid activities, the
children's survey on road safety and the tour
diary of the 2005 campaign.
