Initiative launched as EU fails to cut road deaths

14 June 2006
 
Road safety campaigners across Europe are developing performance indicators designed to pin governments down to delivering on their policy commitments.
The initiative, to rank EU states by their progress in cutting road casualties, was launched last week by the European Transport Safety Council, with the backing of the European Commission, the Swedish Road Administration, and car manufacturer Toyota Motor Europe.
It follows a mid-term review of policy by the Council of Ministers, which confirmed that the EU would fall considerably short of its 2010 target to halve the community’s annual toll of 50,000 road deaths.
Fatalities fell by just 17.5% between 2001 and 2005, although the yearly reduction has doubled in a decade to 5%.
‘Members are on the right track, but are still moving too slowly,’ it concluded, calling for action on a range of fronts, especially-vulnerable road-users and motorcyclists. The review ducked the commission’s earlier commitment to legislation and failed to set out a timescale or quantify the effect of the measures proposed.
Campaigners are now waiting to see if the commission will legislate on its proposals, floated in April, to require road safety impact assessments for new infrastructure, together with safety audits, network safety management, and regular risk assessments. Transport ministers backed the review’s endorsement of speed management, drink-driving law harmonisation, speed limiters, and other technological measures.

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