VIDEO – Manuel Valls announced Friday twenty-two action against road deaths
“The roads of France can not be a graveyard” to try to stop a road fatality bullish, Manuel Valls announced Friday twenty-two measures, the most emblematic of which is the installation of new radars but also, for the first time, lures. “The goal has not changed, I fixed it when I was Minister of the Interior”: it comes back under the threshold “2000 people killed on the roads in 2020,” in 3384 against 2014, said the head of government to the press after an interdepartmental committee on road safety at Matignon, the first in four years.
Five hundred new “real” cameras will be installed on roads French in the next three years, bringing the total to 4700. But in addition to these conventional radars will be installed at the same time, more than 10,000 false , decoys, which will be the first in France. The goal is to quadruple the “radar zones” that exist in the country, these radars are true or lures.
Other key measures include an experiment drones to detect “risky behavior” . And for the bikers, a compulsory roadworthiness test for motorcycles when they are sold, as well as wearing gloves approved.
The government wants to reverse the curve the number of road deaths which increased in 2014 for the first time in twelve years (+ 3.5%). Especially that “the first eight months of 2015 (…) the number of road deaths is increasing, 99 more than in 2014,” noted Manuel Valls. “These numbers are unacceptable” and “required to take further strong measures,” he said.
The Prime Minister stressed an increase in average speed and breaches of the highway code . “We are less vigilant,” he lamented, calling “the individual responsibility of everyone.”
So the government has not opted for the big bang that represent widespread lowering the speed limit from 90 to 80 km / h throughout the secondary network, called for particularly by the League against road violence. For its part, anticipating new measures “repressive”, the association of 40 million motorists Friday launched the www.legrandraslebol.com a website denouncing France “become the world catalog of repressive measures.”
Friday plan adds to the 26 measures announced in January by the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Welcoming these “courageous measures” as “the prohibition of the atria at the wheel,” Manuel Valls said that the plan had “not yet fully effective.”
The interministerial committee intervenes Anyway after a series of small hiccups in government road safety. The Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has announced the withdrawal of provisions providing an easing of sanctions for failure to license, after the outcry in July. And this summer, the Journal du Dimanche had unveiled a report of the General Inspectorate of Directors in July 2014, pointing in particular a lack of interdepartmental collaboration on road safety. “In terms of road safety, large highly effective measures such as belts, ABS, radars have already been taken. Now it’s more complicated, you have to get the lives of pockets, “says Emmanuel Barbe, Interministerial Delegate for road safety.
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