The number of deaths on the roads down in June – Le Point

The number of people killed on the roads of France fell 5% in June, announced Saturday the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve. “There on June decreased by 5% the number of deaths on the roads”, 15 lives saved compared to June 2014, the minister said during a trip to the toll of Fleury-en-Bière (Seine-et-Marne) on the A6 on the occasion of holiday departures. However, the overall trend remains upward in the first six months of the year.

13,000 gendarmes and police officers on the road

The first half was marked by four month increase in road deaths, but this decline “brings the annual trend towards an increase of 1.5% instead of 3.5%” in 2014, said Bernard Cazeneuve. “One month does not a year, but we need to confirm this trend,” said the tenant of the place Beauvau calling motorists to be “responsible”.

The security forces will be mobilized all summer with 13,000 police and gendarmes deployed on the roads of France. “I asked to multiply repressive controls during the two holiday months,” said Bernard Cazeneuve, who was accompanied by the interministerial delegate for road safety, Emmanuel Barbe. “The political radar is the main axis to decrease the speeds that determine the severity of the accident: the aim is to continue the decline in mortality on the roads,” said the latter.

A new generation radar

Bernard Cazeneuve participated in the morning at the commissioning of the first autonomous radar installed on a building site of the A6 motorway. Transported by trailer, this new generation radar can be installed on site or areas of immediate danger. Means “precise”, he “is very powerful technologically,” said Emmanuel Barbe, saying it is intended to secure the workers but also motorists.

According to the minister, 150 of these cameras should be commissioned in France by the end of 2016. The government is also counting on the entry into force on 1 July of the ban handsfree driving and lower the blood alcohol content of 0.2 g / l novice drivers to stop road deaths. Both measures are part of a plan of 26 measures announced in January by Bernard Cazeneuve, which also includes experimenting with the speed limited to 80 km / h on some secondary roads, which also began on 1 July .

The government’s goal is to bring to 2,000 the number of road deaths by 2020. But 2014 saw the first increase in the number of deaths since 12 years (3384, 3.5%).