On Wednesday 29 March, at the end of a road safety ministerial conference in Valetta, transport ministers adopted the “The Valetta Declaration”. This seeks to improve road safety and halve the number of deaths on the road by 2020. The text particularly focuses on the seriously injured, and connected and autonomous cars.
Despite a slight decrease in the number of deaths on European roads in 2016 (see EUROPE 11756), the member states are again concerned by mortality rates and serious...