Strider Road Safety Seminar 

Bristol, 19 May 2015

Ellen Townsend, Policy Director

OUR MEMBERS

Monitoring EU transport safety policy

Road Safety Performance Index (PIN)

Ranking EU countries‘ performances

SAFE & SOBER

25,700Recorded killed as a consequence of road collisions

EU28 (2014)

199,000Recorded by police as seriously injured following traffic collisions

EU28 (2013)

18.7 billion € Estimation of total value

of reductions in road deaths in the EU28 2011-2013

% reduction in road deaths 2001-2013 and PIN Awards

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

THE PRAISE PROJECT

Advancing knowledge on the need for work-related road safety management.

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.

Questions for you?

www.etsc.eu

@etsc_euellen.townsend@etsc.eu