Global Road Safety
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWelcome to Global Road Safety, a podcast exploring the issues, trends, and innovations in driver safety worldwide. More than 2.5 million people are involved in crashes each year, a number that continues to rise as drivers become more distracted behind the wheel.
Featuring interviews with safety experts and leaders, Global Road Safety is an initiative to reduce crashes and save lives — across every continent. The Global Road Safety podcast is produced by Smith System, the leader in advanced driver safety training.
For more information, visit http://www.drivedifferent.com
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Episodes
Improving Road & Rail Safety in Ghana with Eric Nyame-Baafi
June 24, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBThere's a real need to improve road safety in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, says Eric Nyame-Baafi, a road safety consultant for the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety in Ghana. “A total of 650 people die on African roads every day. A child in Africa is twice as likely to die on the road as a child in any other part of the world.” In this latest episode of Global Road Safety, Eric discusses Ghana’s initiatives to improve railway and road safety: “The Governmen...
Road Safety Progress in Emerging Markets - Pakistan with Dr Muhammed Navid Tahir
May 04, 2022 15:21 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBEvery year in Pakistan around 30,000 people die in road accidents. Why, in the world’s fifth largest country, would they have such a high rate of road safety incidents? “If we discuss the major road safety issues in Pakistan, the problem is unfortunately, still we do not have any road safety lead agency in Pakistan.” Dr Muhammed Navid Tahir is incredibly passionate about making Pakistan's roads safer. As an assistant professor of Public Health at the University of Punjab, he's als...
How Technology Can Help Tackle Driver Distraction with Paul Ripley & Ted Chen
January 04, 2022 17:38 - 40 minutes - 91.8 MBEvery day, roughly 100 people in the United States are killed in road crashes. Globally, that number is approximately Ten to 15% of those deaths are directly attributable to distracted driving. Driving distracted increases the chances of a motor vehicle crash by at least 23 times. Statistically, distracted driving is as dangerous as driving while impaired by drugs or alcohol. So, what is being done to tackle distracted driving? In this latest episode of Global Road Safety, we’r...
The Latest Research on Drugged Driving with Dr. Timothy Brown
October 07, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 79.1 MBWith safer vehicle designed driver assistance, technology and mountains of data available from monitoring devices, why is it that vehicle crashes and deaths continue to rise? With the decades of research, public awareness and marketing that has happened around the world with regards to impaired driving, there's data to suggest that 45 to 50% of all fatal crashes involve a driver under the influence of one or more substances. “When we look at drugs, people may not be aware or per...
Improving Road Safety with Retired NTSB Chairman, Robert Sumwalt
August 31, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes - 45.3 MBWith highway fatalities up by 8% compared to the same period in a non pandemic time, whereas vehicle miles travelled has come down, here to discuss what we can be doing as individuals, as companies, as a society, to combat these alarming trends, is Robert Sumwalt, retired NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) Chairman. “The NTSB is a federal agency charged by Congress to investigate transportation accidents, to determine the probable cause, and issue safety recommendations t...
The Eyes Have It: Visual Skills and Driving Safety with Dr. Sherylle Calder & Andrew Crickmay
July 27, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 73.4 MBDespite the prevalence of safer vehicle design, driver assistance technology, and a huge wealth of data available from monitoring devices, vehicle crash and death rates continue to rise. With more deaths, more injuries and billions of dollars in annual costs, what can drivers — and the companies that hire them — do to keep our roads safer? Joining Tony Douglas, President and CEO of Smith System, for this episode of Global Road Safety are two special guests: visual sports scientist...
Introducing Global Road Safety
July 08, 2021 21:00 - 1 minute - 3.72 MBIntroducing Global Road Safety, launching Q3 2021. For more information, visit http://www.drivedifferent.com