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» Greece bans pin-up billboards to stop distracted drivers crashing
Published 2006-06-18
Greece is mounting a nationwide effort to remove "eye candy" billboards from roadsides, amid growing evidence that images of women wearing not very much contribute to Europe's worst road accident figures.
With 15,000 hoardings in the capital alone, drivers are distracted by "unacceptable levels of eye candy", say campaigners who have convinced the courts to rule that all roadside adverts be dismantled.
Billboards invariably depict svelte females in poses. "Many of them not only hide traffic lights and road signs, they are put up illegally," said an Athens traffic police official.
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