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Ellen Townsend
Policy Director, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
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Ellen Townsend
Policy Director, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
Fatalities have fallen by 42% since 2001, but more than 30,000 people still die on the EU's roads each year. How we can make Europe's roads safer?
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