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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.

                      How to tackle drink – driving in Greece?

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.

266 persons lost their lives, 263 were seriously injured while 763 escaped with slight injuries during the period 2000-2004 on the National Road Korinthos - Patras.

RSI “Panos Mylonas’’ continues the effort to inform the citizens in an attempt to prevent & minimize the road traffic accidents in our country.

Portugal aims to halve road deaths ahead of EU Deadline

22 November 2007, Paris – Together the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) (1) and the French NGO

Road Safety Institute “Panos Mylonas (RSI – http://www.ioas.gr/, www.rsi-panosmylonas.gr) has organized with great success for the first time in Athens the event “European Night Without Accident” on Saturday night, October 22 2007

1 country in 1995... 15 European countries in 2007!On October 20th 2007 the Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas is present in the biggest nightclubs of Athens