‘Today’s results show that we are still far from achieving a day without a road death on Europe’s roads and far from achieving our Vision Zero – zero fatalities and serious injuries on EU roads by 2050,’ EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc commented.

‘Today’s results are a reminder to all of us that we need to sustain and redouble our efforts to improve road safety around Europe. Targets and awareness-raising actions such as Project EDWARD are crucial tools to keep us all focused and to go even further on road safety.’

Project EDWARD has been running since 2016, and was created by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL), with the support of the European Commission. The project aims to raise awareness about road safety and spread the message that each road user can make a big contribution to safety by making small changes to their behaviour on the road.

TISPOL President Volker Orben said: ‘We must all commit ourselves to a future with zero road deaths. No one ever said this would be easy, but one of our priorities now must be to reach more and more people with our messages, so that any sort of offending on the road becomes socially unacceptable. We urge everyone to support us as we continue our efforts to protect all road users,’ he said.

Project EDWARD’s day of action in 2020 is 16 September 2020.