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MEPs urge eCall to be mandatory by 2015

Cars on a motorway

All new cars must be fitted with eCall devices by 2015 to alert the rescue services automatically to road crashes through the public 112 emergency call system, say MEPs in a resolution adopted jointly by the Internal Market and Transport Committees.

The non-binding resolution adds that this system would speed up the arrival of the emergency services, saving lives and reducing injuries.

The European initiative has been on insurers' radars since

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