what is the name of road safety plan adopted world wide in the year 2011? write in brief
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The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 was officially proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2010.[1] Its goal is to stabilize and reduce the forecast level of road traffic deaths around the world. It is estimated that 5 million lives could be saved on the world's roads during the decade.[2]
According to the Global status report on road safety, road traffic crashes take the lives of nearly 1.3 million people every year, and injure 20–50 million more.[3] More than 90% of road traffic deaths and injuries occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have only 48% of the world’s registered vehicles. If no action is taken, road traffic crashes are predicted to result in the deaths of around 1.9 million people annually by 2020.
Global activities related to the Decade are coordinated by the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration. Grover, a fictional character from the television show Sesame Street, was named a Global Ambassador by the WHO.