The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has expressed concern that a number of areas for action are missing in the road safety measures recently presented by the European Commission – for example, on tackling repeat drink driving, on certain aspects of lorry design and on the failure to improve crash tests.
In view of the recent poor figures on road deaths and injuries (see EUROPE 11629), the Commission presented a report in December 2016 containing a raft of 19 measures in four main...