Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001043/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Borja Giménez Larraz (PPE)
Statistics indicate that the stopping of vehicles due to breakdowns or accidents on high-speed roads is one of the situations in which accidents occur most frequently. In Europe, this accounts for 13.89% of fatalities on motorways and dual carriageways – in 2019, of the 1 800 deaths on high-capacity roads, 250 were pedestrians. Traditionally, the solution for signalling a broken-down vehicle has been the warning triangle, but rather than reducing danger, the placing of these triangles creates more danger.
For this reason, Spain passed a regulation establishing the obligation to carry a light-signalling device in vehicles, which will gradually replace the warning triangles. This device will also have to be connected to the national Traffic Management Centre to provide information on the position and to warn the drivers of other vehicles.
In order to increase road safety and to standardise rules and eliminate differences, does the Commission intend to recommend banning the use of warning triangles and replacing them with light-signals connected wirelessly to national traffic management centres?
Submitted: 11.3.2025