Safer Roads for Pedestrians requires Fairer Compensation Road traffic victims call for civil justice reform Whilst most efforts this week will focus on reducing the risk of death or injury to those walking, the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims Association (FEVR) and Roadpeace are highlighting what can be done to reduce the toll on […]
30 km/h in built up areas During the 2nd UN Global Road Safety Week FEVR and her member associations will lobby for a general adoption of a 30km/h speed limit where pedestrians and cyclists have to share the roads with motorized traffic risk of death for a pedestrian when hit at 70km/h= 100% risk at 50km/h Chance […]
Act safely at level crossings ILCAD International Level Crossing Awareness Day: 7 MAi 2013 link PRESS RELEASE UIC UNECE ILCAD 7 MAY 2013_en
Second UN Global Road Safety Week Ten days left to the start of the second UN Road Safety Week dedicated to pedestrian safety Info
New face of lorries to save lives and curb emissions Proposed changes to EU law, announced today, will make European lorries safer, cleaner and more fuel efficient. Transport & Environment and the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) welcome the European Commission’s proposal on the weights and dimensions of lorries as a vital turning point […]
ETSC Pin Flash on HGV The European Transport Safety Council has just published a Performance Index on Heavy Good Vehicles and Light Good Vehicles (LGV) Per km travelled there are more crashes for those vehicles and the crash opponent ( car, vulnerable road user) suffers the most severe injuries Press release: Goods and passenger transport […]
4-5 April Antalya Turkey 2013 3rd Global Meeting of Nongovernemental Organizations advocating for Road Safety and Road Traffic Victims was inspiring to meet so many like minded from the whole world there were 10 FEVR member associations represented World Day of remembrance was several times on the agenda and a breakout session about victim support […]
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EU REPORTS LOWEST EVER NUMBER OF ROAD DEATHS AND TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARDS AN INJURIES STRATEGY On Tuesday 19th March Vice-president Sim Kallas presented the statistics related to fatalities in road traffic from 2012, after a wake up call last year with slow progress in 2011 we saw finally a better result during 2012 with […]
Global status report on road safety 2013 This report serves as a baseline for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, declared by the UN General Assembly. The Global status report on road safety 2013 presents information on road safety from 182 countries, accounting for almost 99% of the world’s population. The report indicates that worldwide […]
