The European Commission is committed to making a contribution to the goal of safer roads in Europe. It has been estimated that if everybody fastened their seatbelt, respected speed limits and did not drive under the influence of alcohol, more than 12,000 lives could be saved each year on European roads. In order to be in the position to make more progress in this field, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport requested a survey to ascertain the awareness of, and attitudes towards, road safety issues among citizens of the 27 EU Member States. The specific objectives of the Flash Eurobarometer survey — “FL301 Road safety” — were: * to derive greater insights into which road safety problems are perceived as the most serious by EU citizens; * to improve the understanding of the areas of road safety where EU citizens would like national governments to do more and those where they feel that governments are already doing enough; * to identify those areas of road safety policy that EU citizens would like their national governments to prioritise. The survey obtained interviews — fixed-line, mobile phone and face-to-face — with nationally representative samples of EU citizens (aged 15 and older) living in the 27 Member States. The target sample size in most countries was 1,000 interviews; in total, 25,629 interviews were conducted by Gallup’s network of fieldwork organisations from June 14 to June 18, 2010. Statistical results were weighted to correct for known demographic discrepancies. (Author/publisher)
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