The Safest Traveler Is The Well-Informed Traveler
The Issue
Everyday, 3,700 die on the roads of the world.
Vision
ASIRT, the Association for Safe International Road Travel, envisions a world in which no one dies or sustains life-altering injuries on the roads.
Mission
ASIRT’s mission is to improve the safety of travelers on the world’s roads through education and advocacy.
Save the Date! 2024 ASIRT Gala
Thursday, November 14, Washington, DC
ROAD SAFETY NEWS
UNGA ADOPTS ROAD SAFETY RESOLUTION
“Improving global road safety” (document A/78/L.78) urges member states and relevant actors to scale up efforts to make road safety a political priority and ensure its relevance in the broader sustainable development agenda.
CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON ROAD SAFETY
The June 2024 briefing, Protecting Overseas Employees and Travelers: Organizational Responsibility for Road Safety, was held on June 4 on Capitol Hill. View the agenda.
GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON ROAD SAFETY 2023
Learn more and download the report.
REMEMBERING ARON SOBEL
Watch Rochelle’s message as she marks 29 years since
her son’s death in a road crash in Turkey and urges continued action to save lives.
Our Story
A bus driver speeds down the wrong lane of an ill-maintained, narrow road with a sharp curve and no guard rail. The road has long been on a government list of high crash sites in need of repair. The bus hits oncoming traffic and plunges down a deep ravine. Twenty-three people are killed, including Aron Sobel, a 25-year old medical student, two weeks before his graduation. He was volunteering at a hospital and then traveling in Turkey.
Aron died in 1995, but stories like his continue to occur daily, devastating families and communities.
