Press Release: Digital Agenda: Commission takes first step to ensure life-saving emergency call system for road accidents in place by 2015

The first measure to ensure that by 2015 your car can dial emergency services for you when you have a serious accident has been adopted by the European Commission.

The Commission wants the life-saving eCall system to be fitted to all new models of cars and light vehicles from 2015. eCall automatically dials Europe's single emergency number 112 in the event of a serious accident and communicates the vehicle's location to the emergency services.

A Commission Recommendation adopted on 8th September, urges Member States to ensure that mobile phone network operators upgrade their infrastructure so that eCalls are efficiently passed on to emergency services.

European Commission: Speech/11/557: Neelie Kroes: Deploying the eCall life-saving emergency call system http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/557&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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