P our one month of July, the number of deaths on the roads in France has never been this low in 60 years. There was a large drop in the number of motorcyclists killed.
The number of deaths on the roads in France has never been this low in 60 years for the month of July, but these good results do not inflect the upward trend since the beginning of the year. In this very accident-prone summer months, the number of road deaths in July amounted to 304 persons, a decrease of 11.6% compared to July 2013 (344 dead), according to Road Safety.
“There is no inevitability to road safety”
“The number of deaths on the roads as lowest ever recorded for a July since 1954 “, the year of the beginning of statistics, welcomes the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory. “Encouraging, these results prove that there is no inevitability to road safety”, welcomed the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Meanwhile, the number of injury accidents (- 15.6%) and hospitalized more than 24 hours after the accident (- 18.6%) also fall
A month of July was “unusually wet”
The decline in road deaths is “mainly due” to the users of motorized two-wheelers, with 42 lives saved in July on July 2013. mortality bikers “usually peaks during the summer months due to favorable weather conditions in their circulation.” But July was “unusually wet”. Negative balance for cyclists however, the number of road deaths in July which is up (+ 12 killed), as motorists (+6 killed.)
July was marked in particular by two spectacular accidents: a collision between a truck whose driver had used cocaine, and a car, which killed five people in the Meuse; another between a minibus and a truck in the Dawn claimed the lives of six people, including five children.
The Government has launched many reforms
Citing these two accidents, but also “reviewed the first seven months of the year (72 killed),” Interior calls, despite the favorable data on the whole, an “enhanced vigilance”. Since the beginning of the year, road mortality is indeed bullish. It is well established at the end of July 1833 deaths, against 1,761 in the same period in 2013, an increase of 4.1%. The Government has launched many reforms (increase in radar and controls, low speed on some roads). During this busy weekend of the Assumption, the foot.
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