Strider Road Safety Seminar Bristol, 19 May 2015Ellen Townsend, Policy Director
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Monitoring EU transportsafety policy
Road SafetyPerformance Index (PIN)
Ranking EU countries‘performances
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% reductionin road deaths2001-2013 andPIN Awards
% change in road deaths 2010-2013
1. Slovakia - 37%2. Spain - 32%
3. Greece - 31%
ETSC (2014) 8th PIN Annual Report
Road mortality (per mln inhabitants) in2013
ETSC (2014) 8th PIN Annual Report
Drink and Drug Driving
•Up to 2% of kilometres with an illegalBlood Alcohol Concentration
•25% of all road deaths across the EUare alcohol-related
•Zero Tolerance
•Adopt common approach for drugdriving enforcement
BAC limits acrossthe EU
•An increasing number ofcountries are lowering theirBAC limits to be in line withEU recommendation 2001 onmaximum BAC legal limit
•18 EU countries apply lowerBAC for novice drivers(0.0 – 0.2)
•18 EU countries apply lowerBAC for professional drivers(0.0 to 0.2 BAC)
Standard BAC
BAC
Commercial drivers
BAC
Novice Drivers
Austria
0.5
0.1
0.1
Belgium
0.5
0.2
0.5
Bulgaria
0.5
0.5
0.5
Cyprus
0.22
0.22
0.22
Czech
0.0
0.0
0.0
Denmark
0.5
0.5
0.5
Estonia
0.2
0.2
0.2
Finland
0.22
0.22
0.22
France
0.5
0.5 (0.2 busdrivers)
0.5
Germany
0.5
0.0
0.0
Greece
0.5
0.2
0.2
Hungary
0.0
0.0
0.0
Ireland
0.5
0.5
0.2
Italy
0.5
0.0
0.0
Latvia
0.5
0.5
0.2
Lithuania
0.4
0.2
0.2
Luxembourg
0.5
0.2
0.2
Malta
0.8
0.8
0.8
Netherlands
0.5
0.5
0.2
Poland
0.2
0.2
0.2
Portugal
0.5
0.5
0.5
Romania
0.0
0.0
0.0
Slovakia
0.0
0.0
0.0
Slovenia
0.5
0.0
0.0
Spain
0.5
0.3
0.3
Sweden
0.2
0.2
0.2
UK*
0.8
0.8
0.8
0.5 in Scotland!
Awareness needs to be reinforced
Eurobarometer, Oct. 2010
•On average only27% ofrespondentsknew the legalBAC limit
•36% gave awrong answer
•37% did notknow
Positive checks per 1000 population
Numbers of positive checks per 1,000 populationin the most recent year (2010)
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SI
FR
BE
AT
PL
HU
PT
FI
EL
BG
IE
ES
11.6
9.3
6.0
5.0
4.5
4.3
4.3
4.1
3.9
3.1
3.0
2.4
2.0
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SE
DK
RO
GB
IL
SK
LT
NO
CZ
EE
IT
1.9
1.8
1.8
1.7
1.6
1.2
1.2
1.1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.7
•Being checked for dring drinkdriving is the exception:maximum 1 in 5 driverschecked in one year
•Sartre (2007): Only 26% ofdrivers in the EU were checked
•Many drivers under theinfluence are hard coredrinkers
Drink Driving EnforcementRecommendations
•Introduce targeted breathtesting.
•Intensify enforcement of drinkdriving laws by setting targetse.g. 1 in 5 motorists.
•Implement a roadsideevidential breath testing.
•Increasingly used across Europe.
•Reoffending rates in Finlandreduced from 30% to 6% with use ofinterlocks.
•Already compulsory on schoolbuses in France and Finland.
Should be mandatory for professionalvehicles and all cars should have astandard interface to enable use whenneeded.
ALCOHOL INTERLOCKS
THE PRAISE PROJECT
Advancing knowledge onthe need for work-relatedroad safety management.Advancing knowledge onthe need for work-relatedroad safety management.
Advancing knowledge onthe need for work-relatedroad safety management.Advancing knowledge onthe need for work-relatedroad safety management.
Drug Driving
•Many drugs influence the driving fitness.
•The use of illegal (for example cannabis) orpsychoactive substances and medicinal drugs whilstdriving is a cause for concern.
•The DRUID project, aimed to fill gaps in theknowledge base, thereby enabling the developmentof harmonised, EU-wide regulations for driving underthe influence of alcohol, drugs and medicine.
•Driving under the influence of drink, drugs andmedicines is also targeted in the EU drugs strategy2013-16.
Drug Driving – National Level
•Vary greatly, from zero tolerancelaws to impairement laws.
•Prevention programmes thataddress drugs and driving are inplace in the form of training indriving schools as well as variouspublic safety campaigns, thoughthese may not always be effectivelytargeted.
ETSC Recommendations
•Disseminate effective information on theeffects of medicinal and illicit drugs ondriving.
•Stress the role of doctors in advisingdrivers on the impact of prescriptionmedicines on driving.
•Enforcement of drug driving towill lead to detection and severesanctions.
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