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Tuesday 26 March 2019
Real crash survivors have become the faces of the NZ Transport Agency’s latest seatbelt campaign
Real crash survivors have become the faces of the NZ Transport Agency’s latest seatbelt campaign. Every year, around 90 Kiwis die in motor-vehicle crashes around New Zealand where they weren’t wearing a seatbelt. Faced with an audience that doesn’t see the point of wearing them, NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) had to shift the perception of seatbelts from an optional...
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Friday 29 June 2018
Publication of the 5th European Barometer survey of responsible driving
Connected objects, rudeness and, drowsiness: scientists explain our driving behaviour On the eve of the summer holiday departures, the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation is releasing the results of the 5th European Barometer survey of responsible driving. How do drivers view their own driving ? What is their relation to connected objects ? How do they prevent the risk of drowsiness at the wheel? As...
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Tuesday 18 July 2017
Alcohol and drugs behind the wheel: habits of 18 to 24-year-olds
French mutual insurance company MAAF has just published the results of its latest “Vigicarotte” survey about “Alcohol and drugs behind the wheel: habits of 18 to 24-year-olds”, following a poll of over 3000 young drivers between May and June 2017. While, in 2016, the number of road fatalities of this cohort was down slightly compared with the previous year – 597...
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Friday 07 July 2017
Rest when you're tired
Antoine Griezmann is raising drivers’ awareness of the risk of drowsiness behind the wheel across the entire VINCI Autoroutes motorway network as part of the #3500LIVES campaign launched by the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), in partnership with JCDecaux. Even though drowsiness behind the wheel is the number one cause of motorway fatalities, almost...
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Wednesday 28 June 2017
Road fatalities virtually unchanged in 2016
Road fatalities rose in 2014, 2015 and stabilised in 2016. According to the final figures for 2016 published by the ONISR (French inter-ministerial road safety observatory), 3477 people died as a result of a road accident in France, that is 16 more than the previous year. A slight increase also in the number of road injuries by 2.6% to 72,645, and casualties up by 1.6%to 57,522, of whom 27,187...
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Friday 23 June 2017
Road fatalities stagnate in May 2017
In May 2017, the number of road fatalities was the same as in May 2016, with 294 people killed, according to the latest figures by the ONISR (French inter-ministerial road safety observatory). However, while this figure seems relatively encouraging, it needs to be viewed within context. First, the number of road traffic injuries is increasing: 5052 in May 2017, that is 85 more than the previous...
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Thursday 08 June 2017
Les Roues de l’Espoir win responsible driving and sustainable mobility challenge
As part of the Responsible Driving and Sustainable Mobility Challenge, organised each year by the Enactus France Association, the VINCI Autoroutes Foundation has opted to support the “Les Roues de l'Espoir” (The Wheels of Hope) project led by the students at ESDES, a business school based in Lyon, France. These students, who had already benefited from the Foundation’s...
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Monday 22 May 2017
Thailand has highest fatality rate for motorbike riders
In Thailand, 73% of road fatalities involve motorbike riders. Each year, 5500 riders are killed that is 15 a day stop and the figures are still rising, making Thailand the deadliest in the world for motorbike riders. “Excluding this category of road users, Thai roads are as safe as those in Switzerland, the United States or the United Kingdom”, says Liviu Vedrasco, a world health...
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Thursday 11 May 2017
Philippines: the five pillars of the Road safety action plan
In the Philippines, the number of road fatalities has steadily increased since 2006, whereas the authorities want to see it reduced considerably by 2020. The latest statistics have shown that since 2010, the number of road fatalities has never been less than 8000. Most of the victims are young, and especially children: 500 die each year following a road accident. It is for this reason...
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Tuesday 09 May 2017
Launch of the first Workplace Road Safety Days
From Tuesday 9 to Friday 12 May, the French Road Safety Authority (Sécurité routière), ran its first Workplace Road Safety Days to discuss and take action to prevent workplace road risks. For this event, “company managers, directors of public service organisations, and directors of human relations were invited to organise road risk awareness operations in the workplace...
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