The target of the European Commission's White Paper and Road Safety Action Programme is to halve the number of deaths on European roads by 2010. This means 25 000 fatalities in the year 2010. In February 2006 the Mid-Term Review of the Road Safety Action Programme was published which proved that much progress has been made towards this goal, but unfortunately not yet enough. If the current development continues, about 32 500 people will die on the roads of the EU-25 in 2010. Both the actual road traffic fatality figures and the development during the last years show large differences, with a north-south as well as an east-west divide. This mainly results from different historical backgrounds-especially of the new EU Member States-and of differences in mobility development. But, as examples show, even bad accident records can be improved significantly and therefore best practice has to be exchanged (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E212343.
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