Past World Day Themes

  • 2019   From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • Life is not a car part

This theme is based on Pillar 3 of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety – Safer vehicles.

  • 2018   From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • Roads have stories

This theme is based on Pillar 2 of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety – Safer roads and mobility.

  • 2017   From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • 2020 Target: reduce road fatalities AND serious injuries by 50%*

This theme is based on Pillar 1 of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety – Road Safety Management.

  • 2016   From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • Vital post-crash actions: Medical Care, Investigation, Justice!
    • Let’s make 2011-2020 a Decade to remember!
  • 2015   From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • It’s time to remember – say NO to road crime!
    • Let’s make 2011-2020 a Decade to remember!

This theme relates to the call in Pillar 4 of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action, namely for Safer road users – through the development of comprehensive programmes to improve road user behaviour and sustained or increased enforcement of laws and standards.

  • 2014   From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • Speed kills – design out speeding
    • Let’s make 2011-2020 a Decade to remember!

This theme relates to the call in Pillar 3 of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Safer Vehicles – for vehicles with improved vehicle safety & crash avoidance technologies and with high levels of occupant & vulnerable road user protection; for consumer information about safety performance of motor vehicles and minimum crash test standards, among others.

  • 2013    From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • Let’s have roads that are safe for all
    • Let’s make 2011-2020 a Decade to remember!

This relates to the call in Pillar 2 of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for safer road infrastructure, promotion of the needs of all road users, especially the most vulnerable, and for  sustainable urban planning, with road authorities made legally responsible for improving road safety on their networks and encouraging research and development in safer roads.

  • 2012    From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    •  Now is the time to learn from the past 
    • Let’s make 2011-2020 a Decade to remember!
  • 2011     From Global Remembrance to Global Action across the Decade
    • Let’s make 2011-2020 a Decade to remember!
    • (FEVR chose a further specific topic in 2011: United to improve crash prevention, investigation and victim services
  • 2010
    • Remembering lives lost and broken; do not forget the injured!
    • (FEVR)
  • 2009
    • From global remembrance to global action
    • (FEVR)
  • 2007
    • Remember and Reflect; Remember and Respond 
    • (Joint theme of the 22 members of the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims, FEVR)
  • 2006 
    • A road death is not a normal death 
    • (RoadPeace, UK)
  • 2002 
    • Roads of the future safer for our children than in the past 
    • (RoadPeace, UK)

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Themes for World Day