Neil Kinnock, the Commissioner responsible for Transport policy, said: "There are on average 123 deaths a day on the roads of the European Union, that is 45,000 lives needlessly lost every year, and the EuroNCAP crash test programme is an important component in the fight to cut that carnage.
Neil Kinnock, le Commissaire européen chargé de la politique en matière de transport, a déclaré: "Chaque jour, 123 personnes meurent sur les routes dans l'Union euro-péenne, soit 45,000 vies inutilement perdues chaque année.