Road Safety campaigns 2011

Introduction
Each year, TISPOL (European Traffic Police Network) and many other Road Safety Organisation undertake many Road Safety campaigns in the best interests of all road users across all member states. The full text and statistics can be found at the links below.

European Road Safety News
Dec 20	Alcolocks for all school buses and daycare transport have become mandatory in Finland since August. Previously, alcolocks have only been recommended [read more....]
Nov 29	Young Men Four Times More Likely to Die on EU Roads than Young Women - Young people are among the groups facing the highest risks of dying while on the road: 140,000 young people aged 15 to 30 have lost their lives on European roads since 2001 [read more....]
Oct 21	Tackling Fatigue: EU Social Rules and Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers - 'Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees' aims at mobilising knowledge needed to create work-related road safety leadership [read more....]
Oct 19	EU Infrastructure Investments to Be Conditional on Road Safety - Between 1.5 and 2 billion EUR of the EU budget is spent annually on building roads in the EU. Member states and the EU Commission must ensure that this is spent in such a way as to ensure EU roads become safer [read more....]
Sept 29	Final EU Approval for New Road Safety Legislation - Ministers of the 27 Member States of the European Union gave their formal approval for the Cross-Border Enforcement Directive [read more....]
Jul 7	Green Light on Road Safety Legislation from European Parliament - MEPs congratulated for their vote on this long awaited piece of legislation [read more....]
Jun 23	Last Push Towards New EU Road Safety Legislation - MEPs urged to sign up to this long awaited piece of EU road safety legislation at their July plenary session [read more....]
Jun 22	Safer queues with new technology - More than 20 per cent of all accidents involving trucks take place in traffic queues or similar situations [read more....]
May 5	Volvo Trucks tackles Blind-Spot accident scenarios - Sweden's Volvo Trucks is tackling this problem at every level by means of new technology and public traffic education [read more....]
April 19	EU Parliament Supports the Reduction of 'Blind Spots' on Heavy Goods Vehicles - Members of the European Parliament have adopted a written declaration urging the European Commission and Council of Ministers to reduce blind spots around HGVs [read more....]
April 6	Drink-Drive update following initial report - On February 28th a draft report on European Road Safety was presented by MEP Koch during the TRAN Committee. The fitting of alcolocks to the vehicles of road users who are known to drink and drive and their mandatory installation to all commercial passenger and goods transport vehicles [read more....]
March 29	Towards a Vision Zero for Road Safety in Europe - Including a 'Vision Zero' for road safety is a new and potentially ground breaking goal for 2050, complementing the renewed target of halving road deaths by 2020 [read more....]
March 17	Cross-Border Enforcement Directive Receives Green Light - EU adopts policy on Cross-Border Enforcement Directive paving the way toward solving the issue for road safety in the EU [read more....]
March 16	Road Safety is a top priority for Walter Hunt - A British Designed and manufactured Cargo/Load restraint system can offer much to the road haulage industry, not least the obvious benefits of Road Safety [read more....]
March 16	Budapest crash shows that fatigue can be a killer in cities - Three die as van left the multi-lane road and drove onto a tram stop platform, ploughing straight into a large group of people [read more....]
March 8	TISPOL signs declaration of intent with IRU - Tispol and International Road Transport Union (IRU) work together for International Road Transport [read more....]
March 4	Briefing on the European Parliament Draft Report on Road Safety - ETSC welcomes the European Parliaments own initiative report on road safe [read more....]
February 22	Traffic Law Enforcement across the EU - Tackling the Three Main Killers on Europe's Roads [read more....]
January 10	New UK lead on roads policing to address TISPOL Conference - This year's TISPOL Conference takes place on 27 and 28 September at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Manchester Airport [read more....]
News 2010	Road Safety News 2010 - [here....]

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