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Published online 25 May 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040524-1

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Health summit drives at road safety

Traffic accidents set to rank third in causes of death.

Governments should target road safety in order to avoid soaring casualties, members of the World Health Organization agreed late last week.

Health ministers meeting at WHO's annual World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, discussed the issue of road traffic injuries for the first time in 30 years.

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