Call for EU Road Safety Agency

The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), alongside six major European civil society organisations, has sent a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging the establishment of a dedicated EU Road Safety Agency. The signatories argue that creating such a body is essential to achieve the EU’s “Vision Zero” goal of eliminating road deaths and serious injuries by 2050. The letter stresses that road transport remains the only major transport mode without a dedicated EU authority for safety and states that this absence leads to “fragmented oversight, inconsistent enforcement, and unequal protection for citizens across Member States”. In 2024, 19,940 people lost their lives in road collisions across the EU.