12th Annual Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) Report
ETSC has published its A nnual Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) Repor ETSC highlights that t which shows that progress is not enough to meet the 2020 casualty reduction target.
Since 2010, EU countries achieved an overall reduction in road deaths of 20%, which equals a 3.1% annual average reduction. A 6.7% year-to-year reduction was needed over the 2010-2020 period to reach the 2020 target through constant progress in annual percentage terms. This reduction was not achieved, so the EU must now reduce the number of road deaths by 14.5% each year between 2018 and 2020 to be on track for the target. Time is running out; the target is now highly unlikely to be met.
On 17 May, the Commission published a Strategic Action Plan on Road Safety that includes a new long-term target to halve road deaths by 2030 as well as, for the first time, a target to reduce serious injuries by the same proportion. The Strategic Action Plan on Road Safety came as part of a large package of transport policy proposals known as the ‘Third Mobility Package’.
The package includes new vehicle safety standards; updated rules on road infrastructure safety management and a strategy for automated driving. Importantly, the European Commission proposed a package of new vehicle safety standards that could, by themselves, prevent more than 2000 road deaths every year by 2032, ten years after the measures come into force.
ETSC highlights that it is now up to EU Member States to give their backing to the plans. ETSC has published its While the EU target of halving road deaths between 2010 and 2020 is now unlikely to be met, this long-awaited impetus from the European Commission could contribute significantly to resuming improvement soon and driving progress in the next decade.