EU MINISTERS AGREE RETRO-FITTED MIRROR LAW
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL HAULIERS across the European Union (EU) will have to retrofit lorries registered in the current decade with blind-spot mirrors by March 2009, after new safety legislation was approved by the EU Council of Ministers last week (June 25). Under the new directive, "a retrofitting of existing heavy goods vehicles with blind spot mirrors could save more than 1,200 lives on European roads between now and 2020", claimed a council memorandum, which added that current cost of retrofitting mirrors "should in principle not present a huge financial burden and ...
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