DRL masking a motorcyclist. The Japanese Government do not mandate full power DRL ( Study - JASIC 2003)

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Updated 03 July 2008

The decreasing trend in UK road accidents has levelled off despite advances in vehicle design. We believe a contributory factor is due to increased use of full power distracting daytime running headlights known as DRL which make vulnerable road users less conspicuous. This website is intended to be a source of reasoned argument against Daytime Running Lights (DRL), setting out the safety, environmental and health problems, all known international pro and anti DRL studies and to promulgate a simple Solution which offers non glaring daytime running lights with minimal pollution.

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Contrary to representations from vulnerable road users, the EC have mandated dazzling 1,200cd Daytime Lights

DaDRL hold the perpetrators to account:

See letters to Guenter Verheugen Vice President of the EC and Marcin Gorzkowski Chairman of UNECE WP29 Lighting Committee

The academic reports used to justify DRL have been discredited - also see DRL Studies

Austria: Parliament ban daytime running lights due to deaths of pedestrians and cyclists and motorcyclists - fatalities fall since ban more > www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4082&Alias=wzo&cob=315900&currentpage=2 http://ws4.orf.at/newspool/84383 Voralberg Online Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT)

Ten years on - another request to Volvo Cars UK to stop importing cars with dangerous daytime headlights due to increased accidents to pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists DaDRL request to Volvo to desist 12 Sept 2007 Volvo refusal 21 Sept DaDRL DaDRL issue of facts and figures 02 Oct 2007 also at Action Centre - Vehicles

UK: Deaths of child pedestrians in Britain rose by 13% last year and child pedal cyclists by 55% - What's New

DaDRL Poland: The international campaign against daytime running lights spreads - new website launched

The UK Prime Minister and government are supportive of our stance against Daytime Running Lights (view Prime Ministers response)

DaDRL Bulgaria: Road fatalities highest ever since Daytime Running Lights introduced see What's New source http://dadrl.hit.bg

High Intensity Discharge headlights cause chromatic aberration - see Health effects of Daytime Running Lights (Health)

If the European Commission were really concerned with reducing accidents why have they not mandated:

Ø Advanced driving tests and regular re-tests?

Ø Eyesight tests at three year intervals?

Ø headlights which do not cause glare and dazzle at night?

To combat the spread of dangerous DRL, an alliance has been formed comprising of UK and European pedestrians, ramblers, cyclists, motorcyclists, animal and drivers associations:

	The British Motorcyclists Federation
	The Motorcycle Action Group
	The Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations
	Living Streets – The UK Pedestrians Association
	Federation of European Pedestrians Associations	*FEPA*
	European Cyclists' Federation
	CTC the national cyclists' organisation
	Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
	The Ramblers Association

This website is kindly hosted by Safespeed – a website promoting intelligent road safety at www.safespeed.org.uk Particularly see the charts at www.safespeed.org.uk/stats/graphs.html depicting how the annual decline in UK accidents has halted probably due to government policy of persecuting motorists instead of investing in positive safety measures such as advanced driver training and engineering improvements.

The Association of Drivers against Daytime Running Lights - Welcome