UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.
GENERAL

TRANS/WP.1/2000/1*/

30 November 1999

Original: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

Working Party on Road Traffic Safety

(Thirty-fourth session, 4-7 April 2000,

agenda item 4 (b))

REVISION OF THE CONSOLIDATED RESOLUTIONS ON ROAD TRAFFIC (R.E.1) AND ON ROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS (R.E.2)

Assistance to victims of road accidents

Transmitted by the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR)

1.	At its thirty-second session, WP.1 considered a document by FEVR on assistance to victims of road accidents (TRANS/WP.1/1999/3), and requested FEVR to propose where in R.E.1 the provisions could be included. The FEVR proposal in that regard appears below.

2.	Part of this topic is already very succinctly considered in R.E.1 under item 3.3 "Teaching of first aid" in chapter 3 "Training of road users". However, as the contents of the FEVR document go well beyond the scope of 3.3, that does not seem the appropriate place to insert the provisions contained in TRANS/WP.1/1999/3. Therefore, it is proposed that a new fully dedicated chapter in the new structure of R.E.1 be created, for example, 11. Assistance to road traffic victims, and that point 3.3 be deleted since it would be redundant.

3.	The FEVR is convinced that such a new chapter would be very useful for many countries and that its contents would be subject to further development, justifying a dedicated chapter. Another solution would be to incorporate its contents into a new dedicated Resolution.

4.	Finally, certain points in the document (A (d) how to give the alarm; B (a) and B (b) prevention of secondary accidents; and C (a) first aid ) should, in the opinion of FEVR, be inserted in the Agreement on Minimum Requirements for the Issue and Validity of Driving Permits (APC).

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