Europe’s day of road safety

A day of road safety is planned for Europe this September, with the aim of having zero road fatalities. Called EDWARD, the first European day without road deaths is on Wednesday September 21st. The day is being organised by Pan-European police body TISPOL along with the European Commission and various other road safety bodies. It involves all 28 EC countries, as well as Norway and Switzerland and forms part of a plan to reduce road deaths in Europe. The target has been to halve road deaths in Europe by 2020
July 13, 2016 Read time: 1 min
A day of road safety is planned for Europe this September, with the aim of having zero road fatalities. Called EDWARD, the first European day without road deaths is on Wednesday September 21st. The day is being organised by Pan-European police body 4753 TISPOL along with the European Commission and various other road safety bodies. It involves all 28 EC countries, as well as Norway and Switzerland and forms part of a plan to reduce road deaths in Europe. The target has been to halve road deaths in Europe by 2020 compared with the figures for 2010.

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