The number of road deaths in France fell by 11.6% in July, with 304 killed (against 344 in 2013), the lowest figure in 60 years this summer particularly accident-prone , said Thursday the Road Safety . “The number of deaths on the roads the lowest ever recorded for a July since 1954″, welcomed the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR) in a statement.
According to those figures, we also recorded in July decreased the number of injury accidents (-15.6%) and the number of people hospitalized for more than 24 hours after accident (-18.6%). “The users of motorized two-wheelers, with 42 lives saved last month compared to July 2013, are the first beneficiaries of this improvement,” welcomed the Highway Safety. However, she recorded in July, “an increase in mortality for occupants of passenger vehicle (six killed) and cyclists (12 killed).”
A call for vigilance
Despite these good results in July, the Road Safety calls for vigilance, recalling continued rise in the first six months of 2014 the number of deaths on the roads. So at the end of July, mortality stood at 1,833 dead in late July 1761 against the same period in 2013, an increase of 4.1%.
The Government has launched many reforms (up radar and controls, decreased speed on certain roads) to reduce the number of road deaths in his sights keeping the target to increase this figure to below 2,000 deaths by 2020, against 3,268 in 2013
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