PHOTO: MVR.BG16 NOV - A small-scale observational study in France has found that truck drivers spent an average of 9% of driving time using their mobile phone, the European Transport Safety Council announced.
The research was carried out by the independent research agency Cerema on behalf of the Association of French Motorway Companies (ASFA), and involved installation of internal and external cameras on lorry cabs.
President Elvira Zsinkai. PHOTOS: POLICE.HU15 NOV - It has been less than two months since Elvira Zsinkai took the lead as president of the European Roads Policing Network.
PHOTO: POLICE.LU11 NOV – One out of a hundred trucks on the European roads is dangerously unfit to travel.
The data came as a result of latest ROADPOL Truck&Bus enforcement operation carried out for a week in October.
The spike comes after a significant plunge in 2020. PHOTO: ISTOCK2 NOV - Post-pandemic surge in the number of road fatalities is among the most worrisome data within the European Commission's recently published final figures on road safety for 2021.
The Commission publishеd the final figures in late October, following the publication of the preliminary data in March 2022.
PHOTO: GENDARMERIE.FR20 OCT - French authorities, including ROADPOL member National Gendaremerie in collaboration with Latvia and Spain, took action against a transnational criminal group.
The gang is believed to be behind hundreds of car-thefts in France.
