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Safety: Vaud police take guests for a “spin” and drunken walk

13/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Click on images to view larger LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The hugely popular Comptoir Suisse show starts in Lausanne Saturday 14 September and one of its more unusual stands will be that of the Vaud police road safety team. Journalists were given a taste this week of what visitors to the show can expect as part […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: alcohol, drunk driving, police, prevention, road accidents, rolling a car, Vaud

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

20-yr-old motorcyclist dies near Morges

20/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Morges, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 20-year-old became the third person in four days to die on roads in canton Vaud when he lost control of his motorcycle Tuesday morning 20 April and crashed into a telephone pole. He died at the scene, shortly after the accident  at 08:30, between Reverolle and Vaux-sur-Morges. Police investigating […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: canton Vaud, death, motorcyclist, police, Reverolle, Vaux-sur-Morges

Bye-bye, speeding for free over the border

29/03/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Speeders beware: France and Switzerland have just swapped data on 30,000 drivers who’ve been caught going over the limit, in order to send them speeding tickets. The two countries began exchanging data in January, with Switzerland receiving data on more than 20,000 drivers since 5 January, while France has received 10,000 […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: data swaps, fines, France, highway department, police, speeding, Switzerland

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