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Road Safety Target in Sight: Making up for Lost Time Road Safety Target in Sight: Making up for lost time 2009 2007 2004 2008 2005 2003 2006 35000 42600 45400 47400 50400 2002 th 39000 53400 43100 2001 4 Road Safety PIN Report 54400 PIN Panel PIN Steering Group Austria (AT) Klaus Machata, Road Safety Board (KfV) Richard Allsop, ETSC Board of Directors (Chairman) Belgium (BE) Miran Scheers, Belgian Road Safety Åsa Ersson, Swedish Transport Administration (SRA) Institute (IBSR/ BIVV) (Co-chair) Bulgaria (BG) Alexi Kesiakov/ Valentin Pantchev, Finn Harald Amundsen, Norwegian Public Roads Ministry of transport Administration Cyprus (CY) George Morfakis, Ministry of Astrid Linder, National Road and Transport Research Communications Institute (VTI) Czech R. (CZ) Fric Jindrich, Transport Jean-Paul Repussard, Maria-Teresa Sanz-Villegas, Research Centre (CDV) European Commission Denmark (DK) Jesper Sølund, Danish Road Safety Council Henk Stipdonk, Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) Estonia (EE) Dago Antov, Tallinn University of Technology Stephen Stacey, Toyota Motor Europe Finland (FI) Esa Räty, Finnish Motor Insurers’ Pete Thomas, Loughborough University Centre (VALT) Antonio Avenoso, ETSC France (FR) Jean Chapelon, Road Safety Expert Germany (DE) Jacqueline Lacroix, German Road Safety Council (DVR) PIN Secretariat Greece (EL) George Yannis, Technical University of Athens Graziella Jost Hungary (HU) Péter Holló, Institute for Transport PIN Programme Manager Sciences (KTI) [email protected] Ireland (IE) Michael Rowland, Road Safety Authority Marco Popolizio (RSA) PIN Programme Officer Israel (IL) Shalom Hakkert, Technion [email protected] Italy (IT) Pietro Marturano / Luciana Iorio Ministry of Transport Vojtech Eksler Latvia (LV) Aldis Lama, Ministry of Transport PIN Programme Analyst Lithuania (LT) Vidmantas Pumputis, Ministry of [email protected] Transport Luxembourg (LU) Guy Heintz, Ministry of Transport Malta (MT) Therese Ciantar, Ministry of Transport For more information about ETSC’s activities Netherlands (NL) Peter Mak, Ministry of Transport and membership, please contact Norway (NO) Rune Elvik, Institute of Transport European Transport Safety Council Economics (TOI) Avenue des Celtes 20 Poland (PL) Ilona Buttler, Motor Transport Institute B-1040 Brussels (ITS) Tel. + 32 2 230 41 06 Portugal (PT) João Cardoso, National Laboratory of Fax. +32 2 230 42 15 Civil Engineering (LNEC) Internet: www.etsc.eu/PIN Romania (RO) Cristian Constantinescu, Road Authority Slovakia (SK) Karol Meliška, Ministry of Transport ETSC is grateful for the financial support provided for the Slovenia (SI) Tomaž Pavčič , Ministry of Transport Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) by the Swedish Trans- Spain (ES) Pilar Zori, Ministry of Interior port Administration, the Norwegian Public Roads Adminis- tration and Toyota Motor Europe. Sweden (SE) Anna Vadeby, National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Switzerland (CH) Stefan Siegrist, Council for ETSC and do not necessarily reflect the views of sponsors or Accident Prevention (bfu) the organisations to which the PIN Panel and Steering Group members belong. U.K. Lucy Rackliff, Loughborough University © ETSC, June 2010 PIN Observers Greece – Stelios Efstathiadis, Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas Italy – Lucia Pennisi, Automodile Club d’Italia (ACI) Road Safety Target in Sight: Making up for lost time 2009 2007 2004 2008 2005 2003 2006 35000 42600 45400 47400 50400 2002 th 39000 53400 43100 2001 4 Road Safety PIN Report 54400 Written by Graziella Jost Marco Popolizio Richard Allsop Vojtech Eksler 22 June 2010 Acknowledgements ETSC is grateful for the contribution of the members of the Road Safety PIN Panel and Steering Group to this report. This report would not have been possible without the data, background information and expert knowledge they provided. Our special thanks go to the Chairman of the Road Safety PIN, Prof. Richard Allsop, and the Co-chair, Åsa Ersson, for they invaluable support. This report forms part of ETSC’s Road Safety PIN Programme. The PIN Programme relies on the Panellists in the participating countries to provide the data for their countries and to confirm the quality of the data. This forms the basis for all PIN publications, which are circulated in draft to the PIN Steering Group and Panel for comment and are finalised after taking account of comments received from them. The CARE and IRTAD databases have been used for verification. ETSC is grateful to Maria-Teresa Sanz-Villegas from the European Commission and Véronique Feypell de La Beaumelle from the Joint Transport Research Centre of the OECD and the International Transport Forum. Reference has also been made to the outcomes of SafetyNet including the European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO). ETSC is also grateful for the financial support provided for the PIN Programme by the Swedish Transport Administration, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and Toyota Motor Europe. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of ETSC and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors or the organisations to which the PIN panel and Steering Group members belong. The European Transport Safety Council The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is an international non-governmental organisation which was formed in 1993 in response to the persistent and unacceptably high European road casualty toll and public concern about individual transport tragedies. ETSC provides an impartial source of advice on transport safety matters to the European Commission, the European Parliament and to national governments and organisations concerned with safety throughout Europe. ETSC brings together experts of international reputation and representatives of a wide range of national and international organisations with transport safety interests to exchange experience and knowledge and to identify and promote research-based contributions to transport safety. Executive Director: Antonio Avenoso Board of Directors: Professor Herman De Croo (Chairman) Brian Simpson, MEP Professor Richard Allsop Dr. Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, MEP Dr. Walter Eichendorf Ines Ayala Sender, MEP Professor G. Murray Mackay Dirk Sterckx, MEP Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven Corien Wortmann-Kool, MEP 2 Contents Executive summary 5 Introduction 7 1| Making up for lost time: good progress in 2009 - especially in Central and Eastern Europe 8 1.1 Catching up in 2009 but too late for the 2010 target 10 1.2 Best year-to-year reduction since 2001 12 1.2.1 Outstanding reduction in Central and Eastern European Countries 12 1.2.2 ... with some disappointing results in a few other EU countries 14 1.3 Road safety league 15 1.4 Recent road mortality versus annual reduction over the last decade 16 1.5 Deaths per billion vehicle kilometres travelled 17 1.6 Interviews 18 2| Set targets for serious injury reduction in Europe 25 2.1 Comparison between countries 27 2.1.1 Underreporting of serious injuries 29 2.1.2 Towards a common definition of serious injuries? 30 2.1.3 The importance of linking police and hospital records 31 2.1.4 Killed and seriously injured per million population: another indicator in the future? 32 2.2 Background 33 2.2.1 Road safety as a public health issue 33 2.2.2 Setting national targets to reduce serious injuries 33 2.2.3 Improve post-crash care 34 2.2.4 Long-term impacts of traffic injuries 35 2.2.5 Ongoing European Cooperation in injury data collection 36 2.3 Recommendations 37 2.4 Interviews 38 3 3| Tackling the three main killers on the roads 41 3.1 Progress in curbing driving speeds 42 3.1.1 Comparison between countries 42 3.1.2 Some progress on motorways 44 3.1.3 Noticeable progress on rural roads 46 3.1.4 Good progress on urban roads 47 3.1.5 Effective speed management will lead to fast progress in reducing road deaths 49 3.1.6 Speeding motorcycle riders 51 3.1.7 Speeding and Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) 52 3.1.8 Recommendations 53 3.2 Progress in reducing drink driving deaths 54 3.2.1 Comparison between countries 54 3.2.2 High under-reporting of drink driving deaths 57 3.2.3 Preventing drink driving: measures that work 58 3.2.4 Recommendations 61 3.3 Seat belt wearing after 50 years of the seat belt 63 3.3.1 Seat belt wearing in front seats 63 3.3.2 Seat belt wearing in rear seats 65 3.3.3 Recommendations 66 3.4 Overview 67 3.5 Interview 69 4| Recommendations 71 Bibliography 74 Annex - Chapter 1 78 Annex - Chapter 2 82 Annex - Chapter 3 87 4 Executive summary This 4th PIN Report provides an overview of European countries’ performance in five areas of road safety. It builds on the three previous Road Safety PIN Reports published in June 2007, 2008 and 20091. It shows how countries have progressed in reducing road deaths and serious injuries since 2001. It also shows how countries perform in tackling the three main killers on the roads: speeding, drink driving and failure to wear a seat belt. These rankings have been carried out during the fourth year of the Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) between September 2009 and June 2010. They cover 30 countries, all 27 Member States of the European Union, together with Israel, Norway and Switzerland. Progress toward the target The European Union has set itself the ambitious target of halving the number of road deaths between 2001 and 2010. The 2010 target will not be reached by the target date. As many as 34,900 people lost their lives in road collisions in 2009; this is still far more than the maximum of 27,000 which the EU set for 2010. Yet it is 19,500 fewer than in 2001 showing great progress has been made across the EU. Since 2001, road deaths have been cut by 36% in the EU27. In the EU15, the countries who originally set the target, road deaths have been cut by 42%.
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