| 1972 |
Differentiated speed limits |
| 1975 |
Mandatory seat belt use by front seat occupants in passenger cars |
| Motor cycle helmet |
| 1976 |
Driving test for motor cycle |
| School transport sign |
| 1977 |
Daytime running lights |
| Random breath tests allowed |
| 1978 |
Moped helmet |
| 1979 |
Cycle light in nighttime (not needed in daylight) |
| 1980 |
Vehicle width allowed from 2.5 to 2.6 metre |
| Campaign: " The accident risk is highest in x-county" |
| 1981 |
Driving practice allowed on motorways. |
| New 30 km/h-sign as recommended speed in areas with the speed limit of 50 km/h as a warning for "speed humps, etc." |
| Campaign: "Children in traffic". |
| 1982 |
All slow moving vehicles shall have a warning sign. |
| Traffic Safety Official Report 1982. Qualitative target for the traffic safety work. |
| Campaign "Soft Children. Hard Cars". |
| New driving licence system |
| Traffic Safety Proposal refused |
| 1983 |
Mandatory use of seat belt in front passenger seat of taxi |
| 1984 |
C-certificate in stead of B-certificate for heavy lorries (460,000 new licences) |
| Campaign: " Alcohol and traffic". |
| 1985 |
Campaign: "School and Traffic " |
| 1986 |
New traffic rules: 1) road shoulder driving allowed, 2) priority to secondary traffic merging into motorways, 3) reflectors on cycles (front, back and in the wheels) etc.. |
| Campaign: " Seat belt in back seat" |
| Mandatory use of seat belt of adults in the back seat |
| 1987 |
The first traffic safety programme to the government for three years |
| Campaign: "Slow down". Speed fines increased. |
| 1988 |
Mandatory use of restraint system for children. |
| Prohibition to produce, have, give or use radar indicators |
| 1989 |
Speed limit of 110 km/h reduced to 90 km/h during the summer. 90 km/h after the summer on motorways around the big cities. |
| 1990 |
New driver licence. New theory test has to be passed before the driving test. The licence is provisional the first two years. |
| The limit for drinking and driving is lowered from 0.05 to 0.02% blood alcohol content. |
| Trials with automatic speed enforcement starts |
| Tyre pattern 1.6 mm |
| Taxation change and increased fuel price. |
| 1991 |
Certificate of fitness for drunken drivers with more than 0.15 percent |
| 1992 |
110 km/h on all motorways. The trial with automatic speed enforcement is finished. |
| 1993 |
The Road Safety Office disappears and the Swedish National Road Administration is now responsible for the traffic safety. |
| Driving practise from 16 years of age |
| New law for drunken driving. Limit for serious intoxicated 0.10 percent |
| Number of random breath tests doubled |
| Laser instrument introduced for speed limit enforcement |
| The National Traffic Safety Programme for 1995-2000. Less than 400 killed in 2000 |
| 1995 |
Speed limit for passenger cars with trailer and heavy lorries increased from 70 to 80 km/h |
| Increased fuel price |
| Steel wire barrier in the median of motorways |
| 1996 |
The "Zero Vision" presented |
| Airbag "standard" on new passenger cars |
| The length of lorries from 24 to 25.25 metres |
| 1997 |
Some roads will have reduced speed limit from 110 to 90 km/h |
| The "Vision Zero" is taken by the Parliament |
| 1998 |
Steel wire barriers in the roadside are introduced |
| Local communities got the right to decide on the speed limit of 30 km/h |
| The first 3-lane road with a middle steel wire barrier is open |
| 1999 |
Seat belt law expanded to taxi drivers and lorry occupants if seat belts are installed. |
| Winter tyres mandatory at winter conditions, December to March |
| Trials with winter speed limits, 110 to 90 km/h and 90 to 70 km/h |
| 2000 |
Some winter speed limits were kept |
| High fuel price at the end of 2000 |
| Priority for pedestrians on pedestrian (zebra) crossings. Decreased number of pedestrian crossings. |
| 2001 |
Speed cameras were introduced |
| Middle steel wire barriers on 2+1 roads were increasing |
| 2002 |
Increasing use of automatic speed surveillance and middle steel wire barriers |
| EU-moped (45 km/h) introduced |
| 2003 |
About 1000 km two-lane roads with width of 13 meter have been converted to 2+1 roads with steel barriers separating the two directions |
| Speed cameras on 500 kilometres of road |
| 2004 |
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