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Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain, Luxembourg, Sweden, France and Slovenia have all made reductions of more than 50% in the number of deaths on their roads since 2001.

A new programme begins for Road Safety titled “Scouting and Global Road Safety” which is an initiative of the R.S.I. “Panos Mylonas” and the Scouts of Greece in collaboration with Scouting Ireland and Road Safety Authority of Ireland (RSA) and it has been placed under the auspices of the UNECE. The program is included in the action for the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety.

The President of RSI "Panos Mylonas" Vassiliki Danelli Mylona following the invitation of Turkish Ministry of Transport and Communication and TUVTURK attended the 4th Stakeholder meeting and Appreciation Award Ceremony for the Traffic Responsibility Action programme in Turkey which was also attended by national agencies and selected international Organizations (6-7 April 2011).

The President of the RSI “Panos Mylonas”, Mrs Vassiliki Danelli-Mylona met with His All Holiness, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, Mr Bartholomew, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople

On Saturday 16th of October 2010, the Road Safety Institute “Panos Mylonas” will be present in the biggest nightclubs.

The Road Safety Institute (I.O.AS.) “Panos Mylonas” in the framework of to its mission for the reduction of road accidents and the control of excessive and inappropriate speed that causes the 1/3 of the fatal road accidents, undertook the initiative to conduct a systematic program of speed monitoring and enforcement at the area of East Attica, in collaboration with the Traffic Police Department of Agia Paraskevi being in charge of that particular area.

International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) on 22 June 2010 (Paris/Brussels, 21 June 2010) Despite all the measures taken to indicate the presence of level crossings and make them safe, too many road users and pedestrians are killed or injured at such crossings each year right around the world.

14 January 2010, Brussels –More than a hundred EU road safety experts and stakeholders met today at the European Transport Safety Council’s(1) Safety Lunch(2) to discuss new 2020 targets. The European Commission is expected to publish its 4th Road Safety Action Programme (RSAP) this spring.

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18 November 2009, Brussels – Today Transport Ministers, the European Transport Safety Council and other NGO representatives from over 40 countries will meet at the 1st U.N. Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow, Russia. The U.N. Conference will be a historical landmark for countries to join forces in tackling the problems of road safety globally. The WHO predicts that road traffic injuries will rise to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030

At least 300,000 people are seriously injured on EU roads every year Governments and EU called to adopt serious injuries reduction targets

Road Safety Institute “Panos Mylonas (RSI – www.ioas.gr, www.rsi-panosmylonas.gr) has organized with great success the event “European Night Without Accident” in Greece and Cyprus together with the European organization in 27 countries.

Athens, 20 March 2009 - In a Press Conference that was realized today in Aigli Zappeiou, the Institute of Road Safety (R.S.I.) “Panos Mylonas”, continuing consequently its effort for the consolidation of responsible mentality for Greek drivers, presented the new initiative “Roads to the Future… Alliance for safety and courtesy on the road”.

Some 18,500 children have been killed in road collisions over the past ten years in the EU-27, around 1,200 of them in 2007 alone. At least half of those deaths, 600, could have been avoided, had the level of child road safety been the same across Europe as in Sweden.

The presentation, organized in cooperation with the Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas, the National Technical University of Athens and the University of Patras will take place at the Park Hotel, Athens on Thursday 3rd July at 15.00.