Measure is part of a plan that aims to increase road safety
Less dead and seriously injured people, through a better management of road safety, users, vehicles and infrastructure safer, and a better assistance to the victims are the targets of the National Strategic Plan of Road Safety that is available for public consultation until march 8. To achieve this, it proposes a set of measures that go through the device installation e-call in cars, by the obligatory use of helmets for those taking bike or the existence of courses of first-aid in secondary education and in driving lessons, as he writes today to the Public.
the National Strategic Plan of Road Safety (Think 2020) has the goal “to make road safety a priority for all the Portuguese”. For this you want to improve the management of road safety, the make, the users and safer vehicles and improve assistance and support to victims. To do this, suggest some innovations, such as the introduction of courses in first aid and basic life support in secondary education and obtaining the driving licence.
to Study the compulsory use of crash helmets by users of cycles, to promote the purchase of safer vehicles, enter the mandatory upgrade of the knowledge, through training actions, in the revalidation of the title driving for 65 years and to create the conditions that encourage the installation of devices And-call in the park of existing vehicles are some of the other proposals in the document, which you can see here.
With this THINK about 2020, the Government wants to “improve the information about the accidents through the georeferencing of the accidents and the creation of the information system of road accidents, optimize monitoring, and implementing the National Plan of Supervision and to develop a national plan to combat driving under the influence of alcohol and psychotropic substances”.
A national plan to combat driving distracted (using mobile phones and other technologies) and to the driving conditions of fatigue, the preparation of municipal plans and municipal road safety and the creation of the national plan for the protection of the pedestrian against pedestrian accidents are some of the other goals of the plan, developed by the National Authority for Road Safety (ANSR).
The document THINK 2020 sets several goals, especially the reduction in 56 percent of the number of road deaths compared to 2010 (41 per million inhabitants), which represents six percentage points above the european target.
The strategy is intended to reduce the number of serious injuries at 22%, compared to 2010, to about 180 per million inhabitants.
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