Michelle Yeoh Quotes

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

There is a constitutional right to travel. But when we pass speed limits and seat belt safety requirements … no one accuses us of “travel control.” Ignore the labels; the facts are your friends.

We lose 30,000 lives on our highways every year. We can certainly do better.

Years ago, people didn't wear seatbelts. Now, most people wouldn't get in a car without putting a seatbelt on.

A lot of people has lost their lives due to indiscipline on the roads.

Internet safety is quite like the road safety issues when I was growing up as a child. You had clunk click advertising and the green cross man coming into schools to talk to children.

Under the not-so-watchful eye of ACS, children continue to die avoidable deaths. This is beyond unacceptable and betrays our moral conscience.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

There's obviously a big difference between driving on the freeway in the desert, where there are no children playing or running over the road, than deploying it in a neighborhood.

I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

My three children played soccer and lacrosse. I grew up as a Green Bay Packers fan. I am not against sports. We want kids to play sports, but we want them to be safe.

For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.

Of course, the cars are getting safer and safer but, when you are going at 340km/h, it can never be safe. This I knew from the start.