The number of road deaths fell by 5% in June – Le Figaro

On the occasion of the first holiday departures weekend, Bernard Cazeneuve nevertheless wished to recall that the overall trend remains upward in the first six months of the year.

Fifteen lives have been saved compared to June 2014. The number of road deaths in France fell 5% in June, although the general trend remains on the rise over the first six months of the year, announced Saturday Bernard Cazeneuve. “One month does not make a year, but we need to confirm this trend,” said the tenant of the place Beauvau calling motorists to “be responsible”. For the first half was marked by four months of increases in road deaths. This decrease “brings the annual trend towards an increase of 1.5% instead of 3.5%” in 2014, said the minister.

Bernard Cazeneuve conducting, on the occasion of holiday departures , moving the toll Fleury-en-Biere, Seine-et-Marne, on the A6. The police will be mobilized throughout the 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 which was accompanied by the interministerial delegate for road safety, Emmanuel Barbe. “The politics of the radars is the main axis to decrease the speeds that determine the severity of the accident: the aim is to pursue the decline in road deaths,” said the latter

Bernard Cazeneuve has also 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. The minister said 150 of these cameras should be placed in service in France before the end of 2016. The government is also counting on the entry into force on 1 July of the ban handsfree driving and the lower rate of alcohol concentration to 0.2 g / l for novice drivers to stop road deaths.

These two measures are part of a plan of 26 measures announced in January by Bernard Cazeneuve, which also includes the experimentation with speed limited to 80 km / h on some roads, which also began on 1 July. The government’s goal is to bring to 2000 the number of road deaths by 2020. But 2014 saw the first increase in the number of deaths since 12 years (3384, + 3.5%) .

(With AFP)