The 2015 road safety statistics published today by the European Commission confirm that European roads remain the safest in the world despite a recent slowdown in reducing road fatalities. 26, 000 people lost their lives on EU roads last year, 5, 500 fewer than in 2010.

In 2014, the country specific statistics (see Annex) show that the number of road deaths still vary greatly across the EU.

(2) No motor carrier shall request, require or allow any person to enter and no person shall enter inaccurate information in a daily log, whether it is handwritten or produced using an electronic recording device, or falsify, mutilate or deface a daily log or supporting documents.

More information on pedestrian safety is contained in the yearly Scoreboard leaflet on road safety, which provides more details on the road safety statistics for 2011: [http ...]

taking measures aimed at further improving the safety level of vehicles in each country by strengthening regulations and systematically providing citizens with detailed information on the results of ongoing research on vehicle safety at European level, and by promoting new technologies for road safety such as speed limitation devices, accident data recorders, seat belt reminders and e-safety, and by disseminating their use for new vehicles more rapidly and systematically;

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.