User-friendly signals appear on the large display as part of the dashboard, so that you know when to lift the pedal as you approach traffic lights, city boundaries, speed limits or other vehicles.

Will the minister now agree to a national task force to investigate the deteriorating working conditions for armoured car drivers, before another tragedy takes place?

European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani, Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, said: "We are working hard to improve the safety of European drivers, passengers and road users in general.

The control systems for pedestrian-controlled machinery must be designed in such a way as to minimise the risks arising from inadvertent movement of the machine towards the driver, in particular:

Movement of pedestrian-controlled self-propelled machinery must be possible only through sustained action on the relevant control device by the driver.

The Commission is proposing that action be taken in seven priority areas: (i) exchange of information and experience, the setting-up of a Community data bank on accident statistics (CARE project), and specific RD operations; (ii) active and passive vehicle safety; (iii) user education and driver training; (iv) initiatives relating to behaviour, with research being carried out in order to supplement existing measures; (v) infrastructure and road safety; (vi) measures to promote improvements in the safety of the transport of dangerous goods by road; (vii) the problem of aspects of advertising which are bad for road safety.