The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has welcomed the support of MEPs for improvements to the way dangerous driving is enforced across EU Member State borders.<\/p>\n
MEPs have backed a European Commission proposal to extend the scope of existing rules on cross-border enforcement of traffic penalties and a new law which would see driving disqualifications issued in one Member State, also apply in other EU countries in a European Transport Committee meeting held on November 29.<\/p>\n
On the range of offences that could be enforced across borders in the future, MEPs added \u2018hit and run\u2019 crashes where a driver flees the scene of a collision.\u00a0 This is in addition to supporting the initial proposal of the European Commission to add dangerous overtaking, wrong-way driving, use of an overloaded vehicle and some other offences not currently covered by existing rules.<\/p>\n
MEPs also want offences to be followed up more quickly by the home Member States once a penalty has been issued to a foreign resident driver.<\/p>\n
MEPs have also signalled their support for a planned new law that would see driving bans recognised across borders and made some small but significant improvements.<\/p>\n
Ellen Townsend, Policy Director of ETSC said the votes in the European Parliament were a positive step for road safety and added it could further cut the number of foreign-registered drivers that currently get away with dangerous driving outside of their home country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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