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Anfac y Bosch crean el Barómetro de Seguridad Vial y Medio AmbienteAnfac and Bosch create the Barometer of hygiene Vial and Environingingment
19 July 2012
Two of the main institutions that promote the hygiene vial and the environingingment in the car,
Anfac (Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Trucks and Trucks) and the
Group Bosch in Spain, join to create the Barometer of hygiene Vial and Environingingment.
The aim of this Barometer is to establish a metric monthly that allow to the media, political class, Administration and society, a greater knowledge on strategic subjects for the car as they are the hygiene vial and the environingingment.
The presentation of this barometer ran to charge of the president of Bosch in Spain, Frank Seidel and the executive vice-president of Anfac, Mario Armero. The president of Bosch declared that “this agreement reinforces the bonds inside the sector of the car to show to all that this sector bets by the hygiene and the environingingment”. Mario Armero, by his part, signalled that “this agreement between these two important institutions is a sample more than the commitment of the sector of the car with the Spanish society”.
This initiative had the support of the General steering of Traffic the one who in words of the general deputy director of Analysis and Statistical Surveillance declared that “initiatives of this type are very important to the hour of concienciar to the Spanish society of the importance of the elements of hygiene in the vehicles. Thus I want to congratulate to Anfac and to Bosch by the same”.
The two Institutions, so much Bosch like Anfac, have moved his worry by the aging of the park and the hygiene vial. Ten years ago they sold in a semester encipher next to the million of units. These same trucks are those that nowadays remain in the park. In a vehicle of does more than ten years duplicates or even triplica the possibility to suffer an accident, as well as to aggravate the consequences of the same, in relation with a new vehicle that incorporates the last advances in matter of hygiene, like the ESP. In this appearance, the message also centred in the hygiene vial. One of the most important elements that has played a key paper in the reduction of accidents and in achieving a lower gravity in the consequences of the same, is the ESP. The ESP can avoid until 80% of the accidents by derrape and, according to a Study of the university of Colony, can avoid until 4.000 deaths to the year in the European Union.
According to the study of Anfac Research for the Group Bosch, in 2011, more than 91% of the vehicles that sold in Spain had available the ESP and foresees that for 2013, all the vehicles that sell in Spain already carry it instrumented. According to this same study, 41% of the car park Spanish of less than ten years was instrumented with ESP. By Autonomous Communities, the greater degree of availability of ESP in the trucks sold had it the Community of Madrid, detecting a lower presence of the same in the trucks sold in the Balearic Islands.
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Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Automóviles y Camiones