Association for Safe International Road Travel
THE SAFEST TRAVELER IS THE WELL-INFORMED TRAVELER
The Issue
All road users are impacted including drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, and scooter riders.
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
May is National Bicycle Safety Month and Motorcycle Safety Month
CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING
ON ROAD SAFETY
The next briefing, Protecting Overseas Employees and Travelers: Organizational Responsibility for Road Safety, will be held on June 4 on Capitol Hill. Check back for details.
GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON
ROAD SAFETY 2023
Road crash deaths decreased slightly worldwide, but U.S. statistics are still too high. Learn more in the
Global status report on road safety 2023.
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 “black spots” 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.