Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission met with road safety and road victims groups to discuss the future of European road safety targets.
Representatives of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) presented the President with a banner representing the ‘Let’s Go’ campaign, which calls for a new European target to reduce serious road injuries, alongside an existing target to reduce deaths by half by 2020.
More than 200,000 people suffer life changing injuries on Europe’s roads every year, and the numbers increased by 3% in 2014. The
campaign’s supporters include seven EU member state transport ministers, MEPs from across the political spectrum as well as campaigners and experts from more than 70 organisations across Europe.
The European Commission had been planning to introduce a serious injury reduction target until last year and the concept had already gained support from both the European Parliament and EU member states.