If a 16% decrease in fatalities is observed, the numbers of accidents and injuries are rising. In addition, the number of motorcyclists without safety vest killed is clearly increasing compared to the same year.
While the main factors of accidents are excessive speed and not adapted to driving conditions, 60% of accidents in light vehicles took place under the influence of alcohol or drugs, weekends and early morning. The number of young people killed (16- 27 years) is 35% against 47% in 2015, from the Beginning of the year.
Strengthening road checks
Reeve ad late awareness campaigns complemented by monitoring roads to fight against road accidents. Parallel operations “SAM” will be conducted at various events to encourage the organization of return by appointing a designated driver “one who leads, not drinking.” Breathalysers will be also distributed to road users on the site of festivities to enable them to check their driving ability. Police and gendarmes will be mobilized on the roads department and intensify their controls on hazardous behavior such as speed, alcohol, taking narcotics or the use of mobile phones while driving.
New measures
New measures against excessive speeding and driving with fake licenses have just taken beings. And since 20 November 2016, vehicles being tested in excess of 50 km / h (or more) of the speed limit are immobilized and placed immediately impounded by the police in reflective vest.
Hitherto limited to cases of recurrence of excessive speeding, a misdemeanor punishable by three months’ imprisonment and 3750 euro fine, the immobilisation faculty is now possible from the finding of a first passing offense 50 km / h or more.
The second measure to create a specific offense of driving a vehicle by use of a driving license forged or falsified, which will now be punishable by five years imprisonment, 75 000 Euros fine and several sentences further, including the compulsory confiscation of the vehicle Drink or drive, choose…
In 2015 and 2016, alcohol remains, with speed, one of the two main causes of road deaths. For the year-end holidays, the Road Safety alerts the public and offers solutions. The film “The Last Glass” and two radio spots revive the “shock wave” of pain occurred after a road accident after an alcohol at a party. A series of films and radio spots, of a different kind and tour with celebrity hosts of television and radio, giving good tips to confiscate the keys to a friend who drank too much without getting angry with him permanently.
Motorcyclists: Beware Danger!
A motorcycle, the greatest danger is to think that there is none. In 2015, users of motorized two-wheelers accounted for nearly a quarter of road deaths with 614 riders and 155 motorcycles. For the same distance, a motorcycle driver is 23 times more likely to be killed on the road a motorist.
Since Sunday, November 20, 2016, wearing gloves is mandatory for certified drivers and passengers (even minor) of the two or three-wheeled motorized. In this context, the Road Safety has launched a campaign, reminding users and passengers of motorcycles and scooters the value of their hands and the need to protect them with gloves. Since 1 January 2016, all drivers of motorized two-wheelers, motorized three-wheelers or motor quadricycle without fairing is also required to have a high visibility vest on him or in a storage of the vehicle.
The Inter ministerial Committee for Road Safety, met on 2 October 2015, decided to generalize the entire fleet of two circulating, motorized three-wheelers and quads pleading to legal size.
The owners of these vehicles therefore have a period of just over six months to come into compliance with the plate size. Otherwise, from 1 July 2017, any vehicle driver intercepted an illegal, illegible or removable plate will be sanctioned with a 4th class fine is € 135.
The standardization of license plates will simplify the control of security forces and allow equal treatment of the user’s vis-à-vis the radar.
The prefecture finally recalls that the front glass is dangerous for road safety. From the outside, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to maintain eye contact with the driver and thus to anticipate his conduct. The surteintage contributes, moreover, to conceal serious offenses such as the use of mobile devices or the port default seatbelt.
At a time when the terrorist threat is particularly high, recalling the ban preserves the ability of law enforcement to react to unsafe behavior of a driver or passenger of a vehicle. Surteintage the front windows will be banned from 1 January 2017. The offenders will face a fine of 135 Euros which will be accompanied by a withdrawal of 3 points on the driving license.