Safety Monitor Safety Monitor Transport safety news from ETSC - February 2018

Safety Monitor Transport safety news from ETSC Opinion: A threat to progress on preventing road deaths Policymakers and carmakers are becoming so obsessed with the dream of an autonomous future that they are ignoring many of the causes of road collisions that could be avoided today through the use of existing, widely available and affordable technologies, says Antonio Avenoso, writing in the Financial Times. Read more... Latest Publications Reducing Child Deaths on European Roads (PIN Flash 34) February 2018 Progress in Reducing Drink Driving in Europe February 2018 Position Paper: Proposed Changes to the Driving and Resting Time Rules and Tachographs February 2018 Briefing: 5th EU Road Safety Action Programme 2020-2030 February 2018 ..

New EU vehicle safety standards essential to reducing child road deaths More than 8,000 children aged 0-14 years have been killed in road traffic collisions over the last ten years in the European Union, new data show. Read more...   New report shows more than 5000 drink-driving deaths a year in EU The EU should require alcohol interlocks to be fitted in all new professional vehicles and retrofitted to cars used by repeat drink-driving offenders. These are two of the main recommendations from a new ETSC report looking at how to reduce the 5000 deaths still caused by drink-driving in the European Union each year. Read more...   France – 80 km/h trial resulted in lower average speeds A trial of lower speed limits on unseparated national roads in France has led to a reduction in speeds driven according to a new report by Cerema, a research institute. Read more...   Swiss cancellation of alcohol interlock programme will make road safety targets harder to reach The Swiss parliament has voted to cancel the planned introduction of alcohol interlocks for drink-driving offenders in Switzerland in a move described by Swiss road safety experts as ‘incomprehensible’. Read more...   Flanders to expand time-over-distance camera network The number of road sections covered by time-over-distance cameras in the Belgian region of Flanders will more than double in 2018, from 31 locations to 68. Read more...   Cyprus introduces drug driving tests A new law, in force in Cyprus since last month, enables the police to perform roadside checks for driving under the influence of drugs. Read more...   Roadworthiness: Commission urges Member States to update vehicle testing rules The European Commission has requested that six Member States fully transpose into national law rules agreed in 2014 on roadworthiness testing for motor vehicles. Read more...   ECJ says lorry drivers cannot take their weekly rest in their vehicle Lorry drivers should not be allowed to take their mandatory weekly rest in their vehicles, the European Union’s highest court has ruled. Read more...