SAFETY REFORMS

BY MARK ROWEPEDESTRIANS and cyclists involved in an accident with a car would be covered by the insurance of the vehicle, even if they caused the incident, if proposed amendments to European law are agreed. Changes tabled to the EU's Fifth Motor Insurance Directive by Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society - will go before European Parliament for first reading this autumn. The move would extend across the whole EU a rule that already exists in the Netherlands and is part of a plan to harmonise road insurance policies across the ...


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