Safety remains priority for transport on Europe's roads-says EU commissioner

摘要

"25,000 people die on roads in the EU every year," stated Mathew Baldwin-EU Commissioner in a prerecorded video presentation on transport safety at the Busworld Academy, "a number, which we accept but which is patently unacceptable. It's the equivalent of two fully loaded passenger planes crashing each week in the EU with the death of everyone on board. No one would accept that level of death in the air and we should not accept it on our roads today either. Part of the problem is that we continue to talk about these deaths as accidents as if they are things that just happen, when we know what needs to be done to prevent them.