Road safety

EU road safety day part of a week of road safety events promoted by the United Nations focusing on improving road safety for youth.
The United Nations has marked the first Global Road Safety week with a number of events and presentations around the world including, the EU road safety day on 27th April. The week had been called for by a UN General Assembly Resolution and its main theme was youth and road safety.
In 2004 the theme of World Health Day had been road safety and the UN road (...)

The VOICE project of which EPHA is a partner has given its latest awards to two initiatives that could have positive and negative repercussions respectively on driving behaviour and the safety of all road users.
The positive award goes to the car lease company LeasePlan Nederland N.V. for offering in-car assistance to keep safe speeds and distances as part of the Belonitor project. The negative award has been given to the car rental company Sixt in Germany for glamorising speed through (...)

The European Parliament Transport and Tourism Committee adopted in November 2006 a report stating that there there should be an EU-wide zero alcohol limit for new drivers and as well as for professional commercial vehicle or bus drivers involved in passenger transport.
According to the report, this is needed if the EU wants to seriously reduce the 40 000 recorded road fatalities every year.
The own initiative report drafted by Ewa Hedkvist Petersen (PES, SE) responds to the mid-term review (...)

The Voice project has given two awards for local communities or projects dedicated to promote the needs of disabled persons and improving road safety around schools.
The Voice project has given a Mobility award to Neil Betteridge, as chairman and representative of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), for their work to promote the needs of disabled persons in the UK and to ensure that they have access to all modes of transport.
The second Voice Mobility award goes to (...)

Efforts to improve Europe’s road safety record have gained momentum over the last few years. The following outlines the birth and progress of the Transport White Paper since 2001, the ambitions of the European Road Safety Action Programme, plus other road safety developments (and problems) up to the present day.
IN A NUTSHELL... Adopted in 2001, the European Commission’s (EC) Transport White Paper concerns future common transport policy. The 130-page document proposes 60 measures to (...)

The Voice project, of which EPHA is a partner, presented its annual award to promote good practice to protect vulnerable road users to Rob Tinlin, the mayor of Southen-on-Sea, on the Southern coast of England.
This award grants the efforts to promote road safety in the city. Mr Tinlin has particularly procured public-private partnership for investment in various infrastructure measures, including several designed for vulnerable road users.
Related awards
Road Safety award to car (...)

The VOICE (Vulnerable Road Users Organisations in Cooperation across Europe) campaign headed by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and in which EPHA takes part, presented its awards for traffic law enforcement.
The EU member state administration with the best record is Finland, whilst the administration with the poorest record is Poland. These awards highlight the variable performance of EU member state Administrations in enforcing traffic laws and the effect this has on the (...)

UPDATED with the Irish fact sheet. The VOICE (Vulnerable Road User Organisations in cooperation across Europe) project, in which EPHA is a partner, publishes informative factsheets on vulnerable road users. The first two ones concern Belgium and the United Kingdom.
The fact sheets aims to identify areas of concern for road safety, look at examples of best practice and provide an information base for campaigners.
They will target the following countries:
Austria,
Belgium,
Czech (...)

A new remembrance day for road traffic accident victims is to be created following a vote by the United Nations General Assembly.
The remembrance day is to be held on the third Sunday of November. It is hoped that this day will help to improve accident prevention, without which the World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts that the number of fatalities and injuries will increase by about 65% by 2020.
According to the WHO World report on road traffic injury, published in 2004, 1.2 million (...)

The VOICE (Vulnerable road users Organisations In Cooperation across Europe) campaign headed by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and in which EPHA takes part, gave its second awards in October to SEAT (progress) and Audi (failure).
The two awards aim to highlight progress or failures made to reduce the impact of car fronts on vulnerable road users. Hence encouraging a better protection of all citizens, from the car makers themselves. It should also be noted that SEAT and Audi (...)