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"Mr President, we look forward to the Commissioner’s proposals in the road package at the end of this month. I would urge her to look at the area of serious road injuries and road deaths, and I know she has already committed to doing so.
There were 35 000 serious injuries on Europe’s roads in 2015 and 26 000 fatalities. It is an area where technology can play a really, really important role in reducing such figures. Be these vehicle to vehicle or vehicle to infrastructure instruments, Europe has been to the fore in leading road safety and ensuring that cars and infrastructure are equipped with the relevant technology that can indeed save lives, and we can do still more.
Who among us can remember a time when we did not have seat belts in our cars? Now they are a requirement for all cars for sale in Europe and on European roads. So Europe has indeed been a leader in this area.
I would like also to mention the whole area of drivers and road vehicles. There has been much discussion around this, and here again we need a European solution. I would like to quote from a letter that the Commissioner has had from a number of road haulier associations across Europe, including the Irish Road Hauliers Group, asking for flexibility in rest periods, considering that those coming from outermost regions, and particularly islands, do have a difficulty in getting back to their home base at weekends."@en1
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