Michelle Yeoh and Bill Clinton Support iRAP in Decade of Action

Make Roads Safe campaign ambassador Michelle Yeoh has met with former US President Bill Clinton to launch a $10 million scheme to help iRAP improve the safety of road infrastructure in developing countries.

The ten year commitment by the FIA Foundation, made at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York aims to identify road safety improvements that could prevent 1 million road deaths and serious injuries each year.

John Dawson, iRAP Chairman, welcomed the announcement, saying "this vital support will help us to identify simple, affordable improvements to roads that can dramatically reduce the risk of crashes occurring, as well as their severity."

"To date, iRAP has identified infrastructure improvements that can prevent one in four deaths on rural and urban roads in developing countries around the world," Mr Dawson said.

The FIA Foundation committed the funds to iRAP to provide ‘vaccines for roads' - working with developing country partners to assess the safety performance of road networks, making technical recommendations to governments and providing cost/benefit analysis for fixing the road infrastructure design flaws that contribute to the global road death epidemic.

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September 2009.