Wednesday 23 January 2002
Euro-MPs have expressed considerable scepticism whether a voluntary agreement on safer car fronts negotiated last year with the European car industry as a replacement for the expected legislation by the European Industry Commissioner Erkki Likanen offers any real guarantee in saving pedestrian lives. The European Parliament's lawyers have also advised that there is an absence of legal control in ensuring the commitments are delivered.
Baroness Sarah Ludford Liberal Democrat MEP for London argued in the EP transport committee and Environment committees (22nd & 23rd January) that it was difficult to discern any assurance that the stricter tests for protection of pedestrians from death or injury from impact with bonnets and bumpers would ever be implemented.
