SHERIDAN, WYOMING – October 11, 2024 – Renault Group and the United Nations, via the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), have entered into a two-year strategic partnership agreement to support the work of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt.
With this partnership, Renault Group has become the first automobile manufacturer to take a stand alongside the Special Envoy's Secretariat and is stepping up its long-standing commitment to increasingly safe and accessible mobility in all its markets.
The partners will take action together to promote road safety by providing training, raising awareness and deploying innovation, with a view to benefiting everyone on roads.
Road Safety is Central in Renault Group's Development Strategy
Renault Group is building its vision for new-generation, responsible mobility around its pledges to reduce the number of road crashes and victims, rank road user safety as the top priority, study driver behavior and use the insights it gleans to direct innovation, constantly upgrade IC and electric vehicle safety, and support rescue services.
The Group's policy and action for road safety follows a 360-degree approach, revolves around four key areas - preventing, correcting, protecting and rescuing - and uses technologies that step in before, during and after road crashes.
This continuous improvement journey, which started more than 50 years ago, is based on an accidentology database that is unmatched worldwide, the expertise of dedicated teams, and close cooperation with rescue services, the scientific and academic community, partner manufacturers and public authorities all working together to harness technology that puts people at the centre and makes mobility safer and accessible for all.
The Group's commitment to road safety is encapsulated in the Human First programme, which Renault launched in 2023 to present all its safety-related initiatives to the public and position itself as a high-tech as well as human brand.
Renault does more than design and build safe cars to make roads and everyone on them safer: it also develops advanced driver assistance and other safety systems, has a one-of-a-kind partnership with fire brigades in Europe, Morocco and Latin America, and invests massively in R&D to fast-track development of onboard technology (recent examples include Safety Score and Safety Coach²) and connected services.
A Major Societal Concern
In a world where road crashes remain the leading killer of children and youth aged 5 to 29 years (WHO 2023), there is an urgent need for collective efforts to address this crisis and pave the way for safer roads.
KEY QUOTES
LUCA DE MEO, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF RENAULT GROUP
“For Renault, taking safety seriously doesn’t just mean ticking boxes. It means fulfilling our regulatory obligations but also pushing further, guided by what we believe in and our determination to make a difference. By coming up with solutions that make our cars even safer and by pushing innovation everywhere it makes sense. So we are pioneering technology, but also taking action that can potentially make mobility safer, while ranking the issue at the top of the agenda everywhere. That is why I feel very happy that we are supporting Jean Todt’s and the United Nations’ commitment to road safety.”
JEAN TODT, THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR ROAD SAFETY
“There were an estimated 1.19 million road traffic deaths in 2021. These new WHO figures give us a sense of the horror we have to deal with. This is why it is so urgent to join forces with partners such as Renault to put an end to the carnage and shine a light on this silent pandemic. Without the active involvement of all actors, including institutional and public sector partners, civil society and the private sector, including car manufacturers, we won’t achieve our objective of halving the number of victims on roads by 2030. I commend Renault Group for its leadership and commitment at our side in this battle.”