This major event held at the Austria Center Vienna was attended by some 1,500 delegates from all over the world. It was addressed by the Austrian Minister of Transport and Minister of Health and speakers representing the World Health Organisation and UNECE.

A considerable part of the conference was devoted to road safety due to the attention given to the topic by the World Health organisation this year. The conference consisted of papers given by professionals, in many parallel sessions, and plenary sessions and working meetings.

One interesting paper was given by Dr Elihu Richter on Speed Creep- he argued that the vehicle km/h is always increasing, that the reduction of speed will reduce all other causes of crashes and that there was a loud silence on speed limits and speed control and a great tolerance of more road deaths from speed creep.

Many other speakers called for better speed management, for better data ('in the absence of good data you get bad policy', one speaker referred to 'the dark figures'), for better analysis of crashes, for political action, for more adequate resources.

A meeting was also organised for road victim advocacy NGOs at one sessions and the creation of an international society for violence and injury prevention proposed at another.

Key Conference statistics:

• 1367 delegates took part from 102 countries
  
• 1538 scientific presentations were given
  
• 2 Plenary Sessions took place with high-ranking international experts
  
• 12 State-of-the-Art presentations took place on the latest research activities in the field
  
• 60 Parallel Sessions took place from 360 oral presenters
  
• 22 Working Meetings took place from a variety of organisations
  
• 8 Satellite Conferences occurred to highlight special themes
  
• 170 Experts from low-income countries were invited to attend via scholarships
  
• 30 commercial exhibitors and non-governmental organizations displayed information