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Vaud road deaths down, bikers still most at risk

14/03/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of people killed in road accidents in Vaud in 2010 is 40 percent lower than in 2003, show new figures for the canton issued Monday 14 March. Thirty-six people lost their lives in 2010, compared to 63 in 2003. The main factors remain speed, inattention, refusal to give priority […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: 2010, Cantonal Police, deaths, drunkenness, inattention, police, priority, speeding, statistics, Vaud

Geneva police rev up biker safety campaign

19/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Motorcyclists being stopped by the police are a sight more frequent than usual this week in Geneva, with the city’s police running a safety campaign 17-21 May, called “PréDiRe Motocyclistes”. It is part of the larger BPU (Swiss Safety Council) national preventive campaign to cut the number of bikers’ deaths and […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: BPU, deaths, Geneva, injuries, motorcycle safety campaign, police, road accidents, speed, Swiss Safety Council

Swiss public transport accidents due mainly to rail, tram crossings

30/06/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Forty people lost their lives in accidents in 2008 that were linked to public transport: three of them in buses, one in a tram accident and the other 36 in accidents that involved “unauthorized” crossings or inattention at crossings of trains and trams. Switzerland has one of the world’s lowest rates […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: buses, crossings, deaths, mortality rate, statistics, Swiss news, Switzerland public transport, trains, trams

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