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Global Road Safety Campaign Launched

The U.N. Economic Commission for Europe and the International Basketball Federation are launching a global road safety campaign to reduce traffic crashes.
UNECE Executive Secretary Jan Kubis says traffic accidents are a major problem, that is growing in all regions around the world.
"Every year, about 1.3 million people die as a result of road accidents," said Kubis.
"It means some 3,500 deaths a day."
The U.N. reports traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young people aged between five and 29.
In addition, it finds between 20 to 50million people are injured every year.
Many become severely disabled.
The World Bank estimates road accidents cost four percent of GDP worldwide.
UNECE Director of the Transport Division, Eva Molnar, says that more than half of the casualties resulting from road accidents are pedestrians, cyclists or other road users not traveling in a car.
"In Africa, pedestrians, particularly women who take their merchandise to the market every day and who are destined to walk several hours a day-three, four hours to the market-three, four hours back from the market home, are the most vulnerable road users," said Molnar.
The Secretary-General of the International Basketball Federation, Patrick Baumann, says that many promising or established basketball players have lost their lives in road accidents.
He causes a needless, shocking and tragic loss of life, which needs to be tackled urgently.

[ 원문 : http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Global-Road-Safety-Campaign-Gets-Underway-101566623.html ]

Words and sentence on air
* disabled : 장애를 가지고 있는.(=challenged)
   physically disabled
* pedestrian : 보행자
   ped- = feet. 발과 관련된 단어
* merchandise : 상품(셀 수 없는 단어)
* destined to : ~할 운명이었다.
* promising : 유망한, 미래가 기대되는
* established : 이미 좋은 평가를 받고 있는
* tragic : 비극적인

* traffic crashes : 교통사고=traffic accidents=road accidents
* some : 약 ~정도=about
* leading cause : 주요 원인
* casualty : 사상자
* vulnerable : 취약하다.
* urgently : 시급히