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Europe road safety scheme to halve road deaths by 2020
Date: 22 July 2010
Improvements to vehicles, infrastructure and road users' behaviour will help cut the number of road deaths on Europe's road by half in the next ten years, according to the European Commission.
The road safety programme 2011-2020 has seven objectives to achieve its goal of a 50% reduction in road deaths. These include building safer roads, developing intelligent vehicles, targeting injuries, a new focus on motorcyclists and strengthening licensing and training.
The EC will examine the possibility of introducing: probation periods after a driving test, and eco driving into theoretical and practical tests.
Driver training company IAM said it was disappointed the programme did not look beyond a driving test for motorist training. Neil Greig, IAM director of policy and research, said: "This is a missed opportunity to highlight the benefits of a lifelong learning approach to driving. There is convincing evidence that further training makes drivers safer.
Greig added: "A common education and training strategy for safer roads will go a long way towards reducing the number of crashes involving foreign drivers here in the UK. It is essential that training standards in the UK do not slip, and that the role of post-test and business driver training is recognised."
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