[This revolution has] . . . not come about without cost: environmental contamination, urban stress and deteriorating air quality . . . [T]ransportation is increasingly associated with a rise in road accidents and premature deaths, as well as physical and psychological handicaps. Losses are not limited to reduced worker productivity and trauma affecting a victim's private life. Equally significant are the rising costs in health services and the added burden on public finances.
interact during each phase of a crash. The resulting nine-cell Haddon Matrix models a dynamic system, with each cell of the matrix allowing opportunities for intervention to reduce road crash injury." WHO WORLD REPORT, supra note 17, at 12.
26. WHO GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON ROAD SAFETY: TIME FOR ACTION 5-6 (2009), available at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563840_eng.pdf [hereinafter WHO GLOBAL S TATUS REPORT 2009].
27. WHO GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION, supra note 3, at 22.
28. WHO WORLD REPORT, supra note 17.
29. Id. at 25, 51.