THE ROAD SAFETY POLICY IN SPAIN Paris, 26th September 2008
1. GENERAL DATA Spain: 500,000 km². 44 million inhabitants. Total vehicles: 30.3 million. 5 M. increase from 2002 to 2007. Increase of 1M per year (4% a year). Total drivers: 24,7 million. 2.5 million increase from 2003 to 2007. Increase of 500,000 per year ( 2.5%). Movements: Increase by 4.5% a year. Attention to motorcycles: 2,300,000 000 An 800,000 increase in last 5 years A 160,000 increase per year (10,6% a year) 2
2. THE ROAD SAFETY POLICY PREVIOUS CONDITIONS Political priority Road safety awareness Victims association 2003. EUROPEAN ACTION PROGRAMME Concentrating ti efforts on the basic road safety elements: Alcohol and driving. Safety belts and helmets. Distractions. Speed. Re-offenders. 3
3. THE POLITICAL PRIORITY Involvement of the President of the Government 2004 2004 2005 Creation of a Road Safety Commission in the National Assembly Creation of the National Observatory for Road Safety Renewal of the Road Safety Council 2005 2006 Elaboration of the Strategic National Road Safety 2005-2008 Penalty point system (since July) 2007 Increase in 2.000 members the Traffic Police Division 2007 2007 Creation of the Special Prosecutor s Office for Crimes against Road Safety Penal Code Amendment 4
4. AWARENESS ON THE AMOUNT OF VICTIMS Opening the debate across the media. Variable information panels. 15 M euros every year for awareness campaigns. 5
5. VICTIM ASSOCIATIONS The promotion of victim associations. Encouragement and participation of the victim associations. Road violence forum (annual). World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Monument in memory of innocent victims in traffic accidents: Against indifference and oblivion. i Subsidies to the projects by the associations. 6
6. ALCOHOL AND DRIVING Preventive controls on 20% of the total drivers. More controls: 2 million in 2003 to 4.5 million in 2007. Positive results: reduced from 4.3% to 2.4% It is a crime from 0.6 onwards. The promotion of an Alternative Driver. The promotion of alcohol-free beer. Fatalities (drivers) with over 0.3 g/l blood alcohol content. Year 2003 34.7% Year 2006 28.8% 7
7. SAFETY BELTS AND HELMETS This means the difference between killing yourself or not. Special control and surveillance operations. 2 per year, with a duration of 15 days. All the police forces and an Awareness Campaign. Promotion of the purchase of vehicles with acoustic and light warning. Level of use: % % uso de cinturón en conductores (carretera y zona urbana) 100 80 60 40 56,7 57,5 61,2 69,8 74,2 84,4 84 Development of the use of the safety belt 20 0 1995 1996 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 Source: National Road Safety Observatory The use of the seat belt has increased by 10 points, both on roads and in urban areas, after the introduction of the Driving Licence with Points. 8
8. DISTRACTIONS 40% of deadly accidents are due to driving out of the road. An inadequate speed leads to greater distractions. Examples: Mobile phones Navigators Smoking while driving Headphones Drowsiness 9
9. SPEED The Plan for the installation of fixed radars. 2008 800 radars (500 fixed + 300 mobile) 2008 National Automatic Reporting Treatment Centre. Objectives: - 2000 radars in year 2012. - control of average speeds in 2009. The promotion of speed limiters. Results: The decrease in average speeds is at around 3 to 4 km/h according to the type of road 10
10. RE-OFFENDERS PENALTY POINT SYSTEM Start-up on 1st July 2006. 3500 3300 3100 2900 2700 500 deaths less per year 300 deaths less per year Licences withdrawn: 11,778 Points withdrawn 81% MEN 19% 4.8 mill. WOMEN 2500 Speed 41% 2300 Seat belt 18% Alcohol Mobile phone 9% 8% 11
11.DEVELOPMENT OF THE FATALITIES 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Variation 2007/2003 Road 4.480 3.841 3.652 3.367 3.082-31,21% Urban Area 919 900 760 737 741-19,37% TOTAL FATALITIES 5.399 4.741 4.412 4.104 3.823-29,19% 7.000 6.000 5.000 4.000 3. 000 2.000 1.000 5.517 5.399 3.823 31% reduction of the number of fatalities meaning 1,694 lives saved as compared to 2001 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Real Figures 40% Reduction Target (2004-2008) Spain has set itself an interim target of a reduction by 40% for the period 2003-2008 12
11.DEVELOPMENT OF THE FATALITIES Significant drop of the number of accidents and fatalities. In 2008, a reduction by 51 3% when compared with summer 2000. Evolución Evolution de accidentes of fatal mortales road accidents carretera in SUMMER en el VERANO of the last de los 10 últimos years 10 años 1080 980 880 879 928 862 818 851 780 680 580 480 741 711 746 667 707 711 677 605 562 528 539 450 380 463 464 391 280 180 80 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Accidentes ----- Fatal mortales Accidents ------ Víctimas Fatalities mortales - - - - Trend Linea line Tendencia(Víctimas (fatalities) mortales) 13
13. THE ORGANISATION OF ROAD SAFETY The Strategic National Road Safety Plan 2004-2008. The Regional Road Safety Plans. The Municipal Road Safety Plans. 14
WORK THEMES 1 The promotion of the preparation of Municipal Road Safety Plans 2007 Publication of the standard urban road safety plan. 2008 Preparation of plans in five representative cities. 2012 Obligatory for cities with over 50,000 inhabitants. Taking road safety to companies 2008 The inclusion of road safety education in the permanent training plans for workers. 2009 The inclusion of road safety in collective negotiation. 2010 The promotion of company road safety plans. 15
WORK THEMES 2 The improvement of safety on motorcycles. 2007 Preparation of Motorcycles Safety Plan. 2008 Improvement of access to mopeds. Exam for obtaining the moped licence. Raising the age for mopeds to 15 years old. Inclusion of driving i tests. t Awareness campaigns. 2009 Inclusion of the European Directive on Driving Licences. New A-2 Licence. The promotion of ABS on motorcycles. 2,000 km of safe guardrails. 16
WORK THEMES 3 2009 New law on sanctionary procedure Objective: To avoid impunity and reduce the handling time Includes the electronic address, this being forceful f for companies and recommended for private individuals. Update of the offences and fines. Update of the penalty point system. Better adaptation to the automatic offence detection systems. Vehicle intervention measures. 17
WORK THEMES 4 The inclusion of emission reduction and energy savings criteria in traffic management 2008 Tax bonus in terms of the emissions. Awareness campaign on efficient driving. Inclusion in the syllabuses of the driving test. 2009 Speed reduction in the areas of large cities. The promotion of safe and efficient driving schools. 18
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