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Men are becoming more sensible drivers more rapidly Women 18-24, en route to work, are most at risk GENEVA / BERN, SWITZERLAND – Working women who drive are at their worst on the road between 07:00 and 08:00, particularly women ages 18 to 24, show figures pubished 9 January by the Suva, Swiss obligatory accident [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The 2012 survey of Swiss drivers to see the rate of use of daytime lights on cars shows a slow but steady increase, but at 65 percent, cars in Switzerland remain far from the government’s goal of 100 percent. The Via Sicura road safety plan will make daytime lights obligatory. New cars [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss drivers are increasingly buckling up, with the country passing the 90 percent threshold for the first time in 2012: 92 percent of drivers and front seat passengers used seat belts, the annual Swiss Safety Council (bfu) survey shows. But 2012 also saw a slight dip in the number of back seat [...]
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Fabian Cancellara, Switzerlands’s four-time world champion cyclists, is getting a different kind of publicity with the new spring campaign from bpa/bfu, the Swiss Safety Council. “Lovelo” about loving your bike – with a helmet on – has a simple message: put your helmet on right by testing with two fingers above your [...]
The Swiss snow sports safety campaign, “1,000 accidents a day – protect yourself with a helmet,” has received good marks: an evaluation by the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu) says the 2007-2010 marketing campaign was an overall success. The percentage of people wearing helmets while skiing or snowboarding went up from 52 to 76 [...]
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Three persons have died in Swiss lakes in the past week, the last one a young woman hit by a speed boat in Lake Bienne Sunday, 11 July. The police have asked for help in identifying the boat’s skipper, who did not stop. On average 46 people die in the water [...]
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