Average speed is increasing … and the number of deaths is falling !
According to Road Safety’s own figures, the average speed on roads and highways has increased in five years. Except that at the same time, the number of deaths, injuries and even bodily accidents has decreased ! Explanations…
On the sidelines of the presentation of the final 2017 road accident report this morning, Road Safety indicates that since 2012, "the average speeds practiced have increased from 4 to 5 km / h on the motorway and from 1 to 2 km / h on roads".
Between 2012 and 2017, the average speeds practiced increased by:
– 4 to 5 km / h on the motorway
– 1 to 2 km / h on roads with 2×2 lanes and roads limited to 90 km / h.– Road safety (@RoutePlusSure)
This is timely for anyone who wants to convince the French that it is absolutely necessary on the roads, as the government plans to do from July 1…
Except that Site has returned to the stats – just as official! – the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR) to note that over the same period (2012-2017), the number of deaths in mainland France fell by nearly 6%: 3,653 killed on the roads in 2012 against 3,448 in 2017 (final data), while at the same time the average speeds practiced increased !
Evolution of road accidents in 5 years
Metropolitan France
|
2012 |
2017 |
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You are |
3,653 | 3,448 | ||
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Bodily accidents |
60,437 | 58 613 | ||
|
Wounded |
75 851 | 73,384 |
So the speed is not the only responsible for road accidents? Do other factors such as alcohol, drugs, inattention, lack of training, degraded or unsuitable infrastructure play a role? But then, how to justify on the roads and the highways ?
But then, what are speed cameras for ?
No doubt this increase in average speeds has led to an increase in the number of road accidents? Caramba, another failure: still over the same five-year period, we went from 60,437 bodily accidents in 2012 to 58,613 in 2017, a decrease of 3% … An increase in the number of injured, perhaps? Still not: 75,851 in 2012 compared to 73,384 in 2017 (-3%)…
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So what ? Are radars linked to money ?! But no see, since successive governments have sworn since 2003 – with perfectly exemplary regularity! – that they are not there to trap anyone and that their only objective is to improve our security !
But let’s check anyway, just for the sake of conscience: radars generated 700 million euros in revenue in 2012, against nearly a billion in 2017 (920 million euros in 2016)…
Not finding a satisfactory answer, the Journal moto du Net naturally asked the question to the interministerial delegate for road safety – Emmanuel Barbe who, precisely, recently invited us to the Ministry of the Interior to regret not being " sufficiently solicited "on questions of road safety, and in particular on the reduction to 80 km / h…
His explanations should logically not take long: stay tuned !
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