EC proposed trucks lights for improved safety
Date: 15 July 2008
Hauliers remain unconvinced that dedicate daytime lights will reduce the number of road deaths, it has been claimed.
Online news resource RoadTransport reports that the European Commission (EC) is trying to pass legislation which would see all truck drivers conducting haulage work being equipped with dedicated daytime lights by 2012.
Studies have shown that the lights can save between three and five per cent of European Road fatalities each year and the EC is predicting they will prevent up to 2,000 deaths.
The lights would consist of two small bulbs at the base of trucks and would increase drivers' fuel consumption.
However, a number of transport companies have said that they are unsure what benefits they would offer.
Speaking to the news provider, Ann-Marie Fegan, administrator for Fegan Transport in Armagh, said: "They wouldn't make that much difference. I can't see how it would help. I can't say I'd campaign for it."
In other news, the International Herald Tribune reports that the European Union recently moved to increase the pressure on oil companies over rising fuel prices.
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