Activities of Michael CRAMER related to 2017/2085(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Saving lives: boosting car safety in the EU (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on saving lives: boosting car safety in the EU PDF (346 KB) DOC (77 KB)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the move towards completely driver-free vehicles is progressing rapidly, so that a review of the General Safety Regulation needs to be submitted by the Commission without any further delay and in any case no later than January 2018;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas 73 % of European citizens consider road safety to be a serious problem in cities, and whereas more than 30 % of road fatalities and serious injuries happen in urban areas and often involve vulnerable road users (VRUs) and pedestrians;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas 38 % of all fatalities occur in urban areas and 55% on inter- urban roads, whereas the victims are most often cyclists and other vulnerable road users, and whereas accidents are linked to high vehicle concentrations and speed;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Observes that, in 43% of cases, fatal road accidents in urban areas occur to pedestrians and cyclists, and calls on Member States to take greater account of the more vulnerable road users in building and maintaining roads, for example by building more cycle paths, or expanding thempedestrian and cycle infrastructure, or expanding and upgrading existing infrastructure;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Observes that many drivers are not aware of the necessity and how to form a corridor for emergency vehicle access on motorways in order to allow rescue teams to reach the scene of accident and therefore calls on the European Commission to launch a European awareness campaign and urge the Member States to agree on uniform rules on the formation of such corridors;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the urgent need to better protect vulnerable road users given that they account for 46% of all road fatalities and that fatalities among this group are decreasing much slower than for other road users.Calls therefore on the Commission to mandate new active and passive vehicle safety technologies that protect in particular vulnerable road users;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Observes 15% of road fatalities involve heavy-goods vehicles while these vehicles only account for 5% of the total number of vehicles on EU roads, underlines that vulnerable road users are involved of one third of these fatal accidents and that the number of such accidents is increasing compared to other categories, therefore stresses the need to improve the safety of heavy-goods vehicles as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – introductory part
Paragraph 8 – introductory part
8. Calls on manufacturers and operators:
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 8 – point c a (new)
(c a) to ensure that technologies, products and services are barrier-free accessible also for persons with a handicap and with reduced mobility (PRMs);
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that warnings should be sufficiently distinct from one another to make it intuitively clear to which system the assistance pertains, and that warnings should moreover also be easy to perceive for older persons and persons with limitreduced mobility; calls therefore on the parties concerned to adopt appropriate uniform standards;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the compulsory installation of non-overridable intelligent assistants to indicate speed limithat intervene to assist drivers to remain within speed limits and thus save lives, and calls on Member States to ensure that road signs are kept in excellent condition, and that road markings are clearly legible;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that increasing the immediate field of visiondirect vision of the driver in heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches, and reducing the blind spot can help significantlyis vital in order to improve the road safety of such vehicles, and therefore calls on the Commission to mandate ambitious and differentiated direct vision standards (as of 2022 for all categories, including mandating low entry cabins for urban trucks as from 2022) and to make it compulsory to install cameras and turning assistant systems, while observing that such measures should accord with Directive (EU) 2015/719 and should not result in any extension of the time limits for implementation laid down there;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Encourages ITS and public transport operators to further develop technologies on vehicles that encourage drivers to switch to safer modes of transport when entering into urban areas;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Observes that tyre pressure has significant implications for road safety and fuel consumption, and calls therefore on the Commission to make it compulsory to install direct tyre pressure monitoring systems, which should come with a safety net that should be able to recognise and alert drivers at least to a critical air pressure of less than 1.5 bar;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls on the Commission to update the testing requirements for motor vehicle passive safety systems to include all Vulnerable Road User frontal impacts, including cyclists;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls for accurate, reliable EU-wide accident statistics, including statistics on the causes of accidents, exposure data, and listing of injuries and accident victims, and observes that an accident database could be very helpful in this connection, in which context the data must be kept anonymous and used only for purposes of accident research;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Observes that a re-design of front underrun protection (FUP) of heavy- goods vehicles can reduce fatalities in head-on collisions between cars and heavy-goods vehicles by 20%, calls on the Commission to mandate improved energy absorbing FUPs for all new vehicles as of 2022;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26 b. Stresses that Directive 2015/719 on Weights and Dimensions offers great potential to improve truck safety, deplores that the Commission missed the deadline for an assessment of the need to adopt or amend any technical requirements for type- approval of aerodynamic device1a, and calls upon the Commission to accelerate the work on this Directive, to make a public statement on this issue as soon as possible and to present its report before December 2017; _________________ 1asee the deadline in Article 8b (27 May 2017)