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31 December 2009

HERE’S a simple enough New Year’s Resolution for us all – reduce road casualties.

That’s what the reprentatives of the European Traffic Police Network – also known as TIPSOL – are after with three simple requests: always wear a seat belt; stay within the speed limit and at a safe speed for the road and weather conditions; and don’t drive if you have been drinking or taking drugs.

Sounds fair enough.

But TISPOL president, Javier Sanchez Ferragut, has an interesting take on what this would mean: “To put the current 40,000 annual death toll into perspective, imagine 555 double-decker London buses, 96 Jumbo jets, four days worth of visitors to the Eiffel Tower or half the capacity of Milan’s San Siro Stadium. Many thousands more suffer permanent, life-changing injury in road collisions.”

Images such as 555 double-decker buses are powerful ones – all filled with road casualties that could be prevented.

Mr Ferragut continued: “We call on drivers across Europe to help us reduce road casualties in 2010, by agreeing to three simple requests. Always wear a seatbelt. Stay within the speed limit and don’t drive if you have been drinking or taking drugs.”

A TIPSOL December drink-drive operation in Europe put 863,204 drivers through controls over seven days in 20 European countries. From these controls, police detected 32,497 alcohol offences and 861 drug offences.

I wish you all a healthy and prosperous 2010 – I think we could all do with that – but in particular a very safe one on the roads. Ralph Morton, editor.

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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