Strider Road Safety Seminar Bristol, 19 May 2015 Ellen Townsend, Policy Director.
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Transcript of Strider Road Safety Seminar Bristol, 19 May 2015 Ellen Townsend, Policy Director.
Monitoring EU transport safety policy
Road Safety Performance Index (PIN)
Ranking EU countries‘ performances
SAFE & SOBER
SK ESEL* PT* CY DK BG RO IL HU CZ FR LV CH IT AT PL BE LT HR NO NL IE
* SIDE UK FI SE RS EE M
T LU
-40%
-35%
-30%
-25%
-20%
-15%
-10%
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
EU28 average: -18%
% 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) in 2013
ETSC (2014) 8th PIN Annual Report
SE
UK
CH NL IL DK
ES
NO SK
IE*
DE
MT FI FR CY AT IT HU SI
EE CZ
PT* BE
EL*
BG
** LU LT HR PL
LV RS
RO
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
120
130
2010 2013
EU2010 EU2013
EU28 (2013):51
EU28 (2010): 63
Drink and Drug Driving
• Up to 2% of kilometres with an illegal Blood Alcohol Concentration
• 25% of all road deaths across the EU are alcohol-related
• Zero Tolerance
• Adopt common approach for drug driving enforcement
BAC limits across the EU
• An increasing number of countries are lowering their BAC limits to be in line with EU recommendation 2001 on maximum BAC legal limit
• 18 EU countries apply lower BAC for novice drivers (0.0 – 0.2)
• 18 EU countries apply lower BAC for professional drivers (0.0 to 0.2 BAC)
Standard BAC BAC Commercial drivers
BAC Novice Drivers
Austria 0.5 0.1 0.1Belgium 0.5 0.2 0.5Bulgaria 0.5 0.5 0.5Cyprus 0.22 0.22 0.22Czech 0.0 0.0 0.0
Denmark 0.5 0.5 0.5Estonia 0.2 0.2 0.2Finland 0.22 0.22 0.22France 0.5 0.5 (0.2 bus
drivers)0.5
Germany 0.5 0.0 0.0Greece 0.5 0.2 0.2
Hungary 0.0 0.0 0.0Ireland 0.5 0.5 0.2
Italy 0.5 0.0 0.0Latvia 0.5 0.5 0.2
Lithuania 0.4 0.2 0.2Luxembourg 0.5 0.2 0.2
Malta 0.8 0.8 0.8Netherlands 0.5 0.5 0.2
Poland 0.2 0.2 0.2Portugal 0.5 0.5 0.5Romania 0.0 0.0 0.0Slovakia 0.0 0.0 0.0Slovenia 0.5 0.0 0.0
Spain 0.5 0.3 0.3Sweden 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 only 27% of respondents knew the legal BAC limit
• 36% gave a wrong answer
• 37% did not know
Positive checks per 1000 population
Numbers of positive checks per 1,000 population in the most recent year (2010)
CY
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
LV
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 drink driving is the exception: maximum 1 in 5 drivers checked in one year
• Sartre (2007): Only 26% of drivers in the EU were checked
• Many drivers under the influence are hard core drinkers
Drink Driving Enforcement Recommendations
•Introduce targeted breath testing.
•Intensify enforcement of drink driving laws by setting targets e.g. 1 in 5 motorists.
•Implement a roadside evidential breath testing.
• Increasingly used across Europe.
• Reoffending rates in Finland reduced from 30% to 6% with use of interlocks.
• Already compulsory on school buses in France and Finland.
Should be mandatory for professional vehicles and all cars should have a standard interface to enable use when needed.
ALCOHOL INTERLOCKS
Drug Driving
• Many drugs influence the driving fitness.• The use of illegal (for example cannabis) or
psychoactive substances and medicinal drugs whilst driving is a cause for concern.
• The DRUID project, aimed to fill gaps in the knowledge base, thereby enabling the development of harmonised, EU-wide regulations for driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs and medicine.
• Driving under the influence of drink, drugs and medicines is also targeted in the EU drugs strategy 2013-16.
Drug Driving – National Level
• Vary greatly, from zero tolerance laws to impairement laws.
• Prevention programmes that address drugs and driving are in place in the form of training in driving schools as well as various public safety campaigns, though these may not always be effectively targeted.
ETSC Recommendations
• Disseminate effective information on the effects of medicinal and illicit drugs on driving.
• Stress the role of doctors in advising drivers on the impact of prescription medicines on driving.
• Enforcement of drug driving towill lead to detection and severe sanctions.