She argued that by 2020 all lorries not exempted from the regulation should be fitted with so-called smart tachographs.

BBC: Road safety debate

Some MEPs warned against possible fraud, stressing the importance of ensuring against tachographs being tampered with to manipulate the data.

BBC: Road safety debate

Tachographs have been fitted in lorries and commercial vehicles for years and now the Metropolitan Police is fitting independent black boxes to 2, 900 patrol cars in a bid to reduce the number of crashes and give drivers the training they need.

BBC: car crash test PA