ECALL

eCall is short for automatic emergency call, which shall be sent by vehicles after an accident.The systems should report an accident to the standardised emergency number 112 resp. E112 and help dropping the death toll and the gravity of injuries in road traffic by dint of the faster initiated rescue measures.eCall is part of the eSafety-Initiative of the EU, which aims at halving the number of traffic deaths until 2010. In the year 2004 more than 1,4 million accidents occurred on roads in Europe, thereby 43.000 people were killed and nearly 2 millions of people were injured seriously. In accordance with the European Union, 2.500 lifes could be saved and the servere of injuries could be decreased by 15 percent, with an area-wide implementation. An improvement of the response time of about 40 percent in city-areas and approximately 50 percent in countrified-areas would be generally possible.